Giraldi, Giovanni Battista
Related Category: Italian Literature: Biographies
(jōvän´nē bät-tēs´tä jēräl´dē), 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 [one hundred tales] (1565) were translated by Whetstone and other 16th-century English writers. Shakespeare derived from them the plots of
Othello and
Measure for Measure.
