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Giovanni Battista Giraldi

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition  |  Date: 2008

Giovanni Battista Giraldi , 1504-73, Italian author, known also as Cinthio, Cintio, Cinzio, or Cyntius. He wrote tragedies, lyric verse, and tales. Some of the stories in his Ecatommiti [one hundred tales] (1565) were translated by Whetstone and other 16th-century English writers. Shakespeare derived from them the plots of Othello and Measure for Measure.

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