Bandello
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It introduced to England some of the best novels of Boccaccio, Bandello, and Queen Margaret, three of the best raconteurs of short stories the world has ever had.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
The stories on which Shakespeare based several of his plays were supplied by Bandello, probably through Belleforest or Paynter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
The Villon Society is to publish this year a complete translation of Bandello by Mr. John Payne.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
They would have used an English Bandello with equal readiness had he existed.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
Both are taken from a novel by Belleforest, copied from one by Bandello.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
