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Bandello, Matteo

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Bandello, Matteo (1485–1561)

Italian writer. He is best known for his collection of stories Novelle/Tales (1554), inspired by the Decameron (1353) by Boccaccio. Many of the stories in Bandello's collection were translated into French by François Belleforest (1559–82) and were in turn soon translated into English. These English translations, by Geoffrey Fenton, Arthur Brooke, and William Painter, provided Shakespeare with the material for several plays, including Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing.



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