Date:1580
Description:A source in Italian for Shakespeare. It is not known whether Shakespeare ever travelled abroad, but several Italian sources for his plays had no published English translation at the time he was writing. It is possible that John Florio, librarian and tutor to Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, helped Shakespeare with the Italian language and may have loaned Italian books, such as De Gli Hecatommithi by tragedian and rhetorician, Giraldi Cinthio, which Shakespeare then used as a source for two in his plays. Full title: Giambattista Geraldi Cinthio,(1504-1573) Hecatommithi, ouer cento novelle di M. Giovan-batttista Giraldi Cinthio [in two parts]. In Venetia, appresso Fabio & Agostin Zopini, 1580. [Colophon to part 1 1579].
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Donor ref:SR 22 [1,204] (32/10561)
Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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