STORY OF THE MOOR OF VENICE. Tr. by G.B.G.C. 1795.
These stories enjoyed a wide vogue in France and England, and formed matter for the exploitation of every class of our Elizabethan dramatists or writers of fiction. They have a particular interest to students of English literature as having furnished, whether directly or indirectly, the plots of 'Measure for Measure', and 'Othello'. That of the latter is said to have reached Shakespeare through the French translation, while that of the former is probably to be traced to Wheatstone's 'Promos and Cassandra' (1578), an adaptation of Cinthio's story, and to his 'Heptameron' (1582), which contains a direct English translation. To Giraldi must be also attributed Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Custom of the Country'.
GIRALDUS DE BARRI (CAMBRENSIS). 12th cent.
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IRELAND AND WALES. Tr. Bohn Lbry. 1849.
HISTORICAL WORKS. Tr. and Ed. by T. Wright, Bohn Lbry. 1863.
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG. b. 1749, d. 1832. 'The most illustrious name in German literature'.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Tr. by Parke Godwin, 1847.
CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN. Tr. by John Oxenford, 1850.
ESSAYS ON ART. Tr. by S. G. Wood. [1840.]