Giovanni Battista Giraldi (Cinthio)

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Italian writer dramatist human literary critic novelist

Giovanni Battista Giraldi, known as Cinthio, was a 16th-century Italian novelist and dramatist whose tales inspired several of Shakespeare’s plays.

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Giovanni Battista Giraldi (Cinthio) canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Italian writer ⓘ dramatist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ
birthDate	1504-11-14 ⓘ
birthPlace	Duchy of Ferrara NERFINISHED ⓘ Ferrara NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Italy ⓘ
deathDate	1573-12-30 ⓘ
deathPlace	Ferrara NERFINISHED ⓘ
describedBySource	known as a 16th-century Italian novelist and dramatist whose tales inspired several of Shakespeare’s plays ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Ferrara NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	University of Ferrara NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	16th century ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Italian ⓘ
fieldOfWork	drama ⓘ literature ⓘ narrative fiction ⓘ
genre	comedy ⓘ novella ⓘ tragedy ⓘ
hasAlias	Cinthio NERFINISHED ⓘ Giambattista Giraldi NERFINISHED ⓘ Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinzio NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ
inspiredWork	Epitia (source for Measure for Measure) NERFINISHED ⓘ Measure for Measure NERFINISHED ⓘ Othello NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moor of Venice (source tale for Othello) NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian ⓘ
movement	Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	Altile NERFINISHED ⓘ Didone NERFINISHED ⓘ Ecatommiti NERFINISHED ⓘ Gli Hecatommithi NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbecche NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	professor of rhetoric ⓘ
positionHeld	court poet of Ferrara ⓘ ducal secretary in Ferrara ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
wrote	Altile NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleopatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Didone NERFINISHED ⓘ Epitia NERFINISHED ⓘ Ercole NERFINISHED ⓘ Gli Hecatommithi NERFINISHED ⓘ Orbecche NERFINISHED ⓘ Selene NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Othello (play) → basedOnAuthor → Giovanni Battista Giraldi (Cinthio) ⓘ

subject surface form: Othello