GIOVANNI BATTISTA See also:

• GIRALDI, GIGLIO GREGORIO [LILIus GREGORIUS GYRALDUS] (1479-1552)
• GIOVANNI BATTISTA GIRALDI (1504-1573)

GIRALDI (1504-1573)  , surnamed CYNTHIus, CINTIIIO or CINTIO, See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian novelist and poet, See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FERRARA

Ferrara in See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1504, was educated at the university of his native See also:

• TOWN

town, where in 1525 he became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of natural See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, and, twelve years afterwards, succeeded Celio Calcagnini in the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of belles-lettres . Between 1542 and 156o he acted as private secretary, first to Ercole II. and afterwards to Aiphonso II. of See also:

• ESTE
• ESTE (anc. Ateste, q.v.)

Este; but having, in connexion with a See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel in which he had got involved, lost the favour of his See also:

• PATRON

patron in the latter See also:

• YEAR

year, he removed to See also:

• MONDOVI

Mondovi, where he remained as a teacher of literature till 1568 . " Subsequently, on the invitation of the See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate of See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan, he occupied the chair of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric at See also:

• PAVIA (anc. Ticinum, q.v.)

Pavia till 1573, when, in See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of See also:

• HEALTH

health, he returned to his native town, where on the 3oth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December he died . Besides an epic entitled Ercole (1557), in twenty-six cantos, See also:

• GIRALDI, GIGLIO GREGORIO [LILIus GREGORIUS GYRALDUS] (1479-1552)
• GIRALDI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1504-1573)

Giraldi wrote nine tragedies, the best known of which, Orbecche, was produced in 1541 . The sanguinary and disgusting See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the See also:

• PLOT
• PLOT, ROBERT (164o-1696)

plot of this See also:

• PLAY

play, and the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general poverty of its See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, are, in the See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion of many of its critics, almost fully redeemed by occasional bursts of genuine and impassioned See also:

• POETRY

poetry; of one See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene in the third See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act in particular it has even been affirmed that, if it alone were sufficient to decide the question, the Orbecche would be the finest play in the See also:

• WORLD

world . Of the See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• WORKS

works of Giraldi the most important is the Hecatommithi or Ecatomiti, a collection of tales told somewhat after the manner of See also:

• BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI (1313-1375)

Boccaccio, but still more closely resembling the novels of Giraldi's contemporary See also:

• BANDELLO, MATTEO (1480-1562)

Bandello, only much inferior in workmanship to the productions of either author in vigour, liveliness and See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour . Something, but not much, however, may be said in favour of their professed claim to represent a higher See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard of morality . Originally published at Monteregale, See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, in 1565, they were frequently reprinted in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, while a See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by Chappuys appeared in 1583 and one in See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish in 1J90 . They have a See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

• INTEREST

interest to students of See also:

• ENGLISH

English literature, as having furnished, whether directly or in-directly, the plots of Measure for Measure and Othello . That of the latter, .which is to be found in the Hecalommithi (iii . 7), is conjectured to have reached See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare through the French translation; while that of the former (Hecat. viii . 5) is probably to be traced to See also:

• WHETSTONE, GEORGE (1544?-1587?)

Whetstone's Promos and See also:

• CASSANDRA

Cassandra (1578), an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of Cinthio's See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, and to his Heptamerone (1582), which contains a See also:

• DIRECT

direct English translation .

To Giraldi also must be attributed the plot of See also:

• BEAUMONT
• BEAUMONT, BELMONT, or BELLOMONT
• BEAUMONT, CHRISTOPHE DE (1703-1781)
• BEAUMONT, SIR JOHN (1583–1627)

Beaumont and See also:

• FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
• FLETCHER, ANDREW
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611)
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1584-1623)
• FLETCHER, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785)
• FLETCHER, PHINEAS (1582-1650)

Fletcher's See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

Custom of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country .