Bandello
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Besides the popular versions in Italian, the story is also found in Bandello, I., XXV., who follows Herodotus closely.
From Italian Popular Tales by Crane, Thomas Frederick
Source.—The main plot was derived originally from the twentieth novel of Bandello, but there is no direct evidence that Shakespeare used either this or its French translation in Belleforest.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.
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 MacCracken, H. N.
They would have used an English Bandello with equal readiness had he existed.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
Quite apart from this source of interest, the “Palace of Pleasure” contains the first English translations from the Decameron, the Heptameron, from Bandello, Cinthio and Straparola, and thus forms a link between Italy and England.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
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