GERVASE, MONK OF CANTERBURY. C. 1188.
Chronicle of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I. Ed. by Stubbs. v. 1-11. Rolls Ser. 1879-80.
GESTA ROMANORUM. C. 1440. A collection of tales from various sources, written in Latin. Was the storehouse of material for many famous writers.
English Tr. probably made in Henry VI's time. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1510-15. Ed. 'Early English Versions' in E.E.T.S., 1899.
'A collection of Stories translated from the Latin at end of 13th century. Many are of Eastern origin, others are anecdotes of Roman history; but all are more or less transformed by the mediæval imagination and usually endowed with a Christian moral. Stories of the Virgin, beast fables, miracles, germs of Shakespeare's plots and La Fontaine's stories, are among the multifarious contents'.
GIANNONE, PIETRO. b. 1676, d. 1748. Italian historian.
HISTORY OF NAPLES.... Translated by Capt. James Ogilvie. 2 v. 1729-31.
GIRALDI, CINZIO GIAMBATTISTA. b. 1504, d. 1573. Italian dramatist and littérateur.
GLI HECATOMITI (or The Hundred Novels).