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Ecatommiti

work by Giraldi

Also known as: “Gli ecatommiti”

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discussed in biography

In 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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place in Italian literature

In Italian literature: Narrative
…called (with a Greek etymology) Gli ecatommiti (1565; “The Hundred Stories”).
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