Bandello
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Arthur Broke rendered it into English verse from the Italian of Bandello in 1562, and William Painter had published it in prose in his ‘Palace of Pleasure’ in 1567.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
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
This Second Tome was practically the Bandello volume; more than half of the tales, and those by far the longest, were taken from him, through the medium of his French translators, Boaistuau and Belleforest.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
As a matter of fact Bandello makes her eighteen years old.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
Source.—The principal source of the plot was probably Apolonius and Silla, a story by Barnabe Riche, apparently an adaptation of Belleforest's translation of the twenty-eighth novel of Bandello.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken
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