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William Painter 1540?-1594, English translator. His Palace of Pleasure (1566-67)—a collection of translations from Boccaccio, the Heptameron, and many other sources—was drawn upon by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists.

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Painter, William, see Palace of Pleasure.

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