biography
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Giraldi, Giambattista
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also called Cynthius
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pronunciation:
[jiraldee]
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| lived:
| (1504–73)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Ferrara, NE Italy. He was professor of natural philosophy at Florence, and later held the chair of rhetoric at Pavia. He is the author of nine plays in imitation of Seneca, of which Orbecche (1541) is regarded as the first modern tragedy on Classical lines to be performed in Italy. His Ecatommiti (1565) is a collection of tales which was translated into French and Spanish, and which gave Shakespeare his plots for Measure for Measure and Othello. |
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