Ecatommiti

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Ecatommiti

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Also known as: “Gli ecatommiti”

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Giambattista Giraldi
His Ecatommiti (1565), 112 stories collected according to the pattern of Boccaccio’s Decameron, aimed at stylistic distinction and, in the manner of Matteo Bandello, showed an appreciation for direct narrative. They are moralistic in tone and were translated and imitated in France, Spain, and England; Shakespeare’s…
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His Ecatommiti (1565), 112 stories collected according to the pattern of Boccaccio’s Decameron, aimed at stylistic distinction and, in the manner of Matteo Bandello, showed an appreciation for direct narrative. They are moralistic in tone and were translated and imitated in France, Spain, and England; Shakespeare’s…
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Italian literature
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…called (with a Greek etymology) Gli ecatommiti (1565; “The Hundred Stories”).
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…called (with a Greek etymology) Gli ecatommiti (1565; “The Hundred Stories”).
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