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PAYNTER (or PAINTER), See also: English author, was a native of Kent
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He matriculated at St See also: John's
See also: College, Cambridge, in 1554
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In 1561 he became clerk of the ordnance in the Tower of See also: London, a position in which he appears to have amassed a See also: fortune out of the public funds
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In 1586 he confessed that he owed the See also: government a thousand pounds, and in the next See also: year further charges of peculation were brought against him
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In 1591 his son Anthony owned that he and his See also: father had abused their See also: trust, but Paynter retained his office until his See also: death
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This event probably followed
II
immediately upon his will, which was nuncupative and was dated the 14th of See also: February 1J94
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The first See also: volume of his Palace of Pleasure appeared in 1566, and was dedicated to the See also: earl of See also: Warwick
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It included sixty tales, and was followed in the next year by a second volume containing See also: thirty-four new ones
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A second improved edition in 1575 contained seven new stories
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Paynter borrows from See also: Herodotus, Plutarch, Aulus See also: Gellius, Aelian, See also: Livy, Tacitus, See also: Quintus Curtius; from See also: Giraldi Cinthio, Matteo See also: Bandello, See also: Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Straparola, See also: Queen See also: Margaret of See also: Navarre and others
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To the vogue of this and similar collections we owe the See also: Italian setting of so large a See also: pro-portion of the Elizabethan drama
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The early tragedies of Appius and Virginia, and See also: Tancred and Gismund were taken from The Palace of Pleasure; and among better-known plays derived from the See also: book are the Shakespearian See also: Timon of Athens, All's Well that Ends Well (from Giletta of See also: Narbonne), See also: Beaumont and See also: Fletcher's See also: Triumph of Death and See also: Shirley's Love's Cruelty
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The Palace of Pleasure was edited by See also: Joseph Haslewood in 1813
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This edition was collated (189o) with the See also: British Museum copy of 1575 by Mr Joseph Jacobs, who added further prefatory See also: matter, including an introduction dealing with the importance of Italian novelle in Elizabethan drama
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