Shakespeare, William. Othello, Sources,
Giraldi Cintio, Giambattista. **G.4074.4 De gli hecatommithi. [La seconda parte nella quale si contengono tre dialoghi della uita ciuile.] Nel Monte Regale. Appresso Lionardo Torrentino. MDLXV. 2v. 17¢m,, in 8s, , Vn capitano moro (vol. 1, pp. 571-586), while perhaps not a direct source . of Shakespeare’s Othello, contains some of its main incidents. Ivriste e mandato da Massimiano Imperadore in Ispruchi, oue fa prendere vn Giouane violatore di vna vergine, & condannalo a morte . . . (vol. 2, pp. 415-430) doubtless was the source of George Whetstones’ Promos and Cassandra, upon which Shakespeare based his Measure for measure,
 
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