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His acuteness of observation and brilliant fancy, often unnatural and extravagant, has largely influenced modern English romancists.
BANDELLO, MATTEO. b. 1480, d. 1561. Italian novelist and Dominican monk.
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THE TRAGICAL HISTORYE OF ROMEUS AND JULIET, written first in Italian by Bandello, and now in Englishe by Ar.[thur] Br.[oke]. 1562.
A MOST LAMENTABLE AND TRAGICAL HISTORIE, WHICH A SPANISH GENTLEWOMAN NAMED VIOLENTA EXECUTED UPON HER LOVER DIDACO.... Newly translated into English meeter by T. A. [Thomas Acheley]. 1576.
'The Bishop of Agen, was the most important of the Italian novellieri. His "Novello" is a popular story, derived from the French fabliau, full of spirited action, and true to the life of his time'.