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Cinthio

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Cinthio: see Giraldi, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Giovanni Battista , 1504–73, Italian author, known also as Cinthio, Cintio, Cinzio, or Cyntius. He wrote tragedies, lyric verse, and tales. Some of the stories in his Ecatommiti
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Giambattista Giraldi (1504-1573), an Italian university teacher, scholar, poet, short-story writer and dramatist, was also called Cinzio or Cinthio.
Kenneth Muir, the expert on Shakespeare's sources, thought it probable that Shakespeare had even read Cinthio in the original Italian.
The bustle of Cinthio and Plutarch and Hollinshed is transformed by the poet into verbal hang gliding.
 
 
 
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