Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra (1578), an adaptation of Cinthio's story, and to his Heptamerone (1582), which contains a direct English translation. It has also been noted that the story of Othello and Un Capitano Moro resemble the earlier tale of The Tale of the Three Apples, a story from One Thousand and One Nights. To Cinthio also must be attributed the plot of Beaumont and Fletcher's Custom of the Country. References Sources Jossa, Stefano, Rappresentazione e scrittura. La crisi delle forme poetiche rinascimentali (1540-1560), Naples: Vivarium, 1996. External links Extended contents (not in book) of first (and only) volume of Hecatommithi] transl. into Spanish 1590, digitised by Biblioteca Nacional Espana, bne.es, digital and hard copy page nos Massimo Colella, Radici novellistiche e metamorfosi teatrali: Otello da Giraldi Cinzio a Shakespeare, in «Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate», LXXIV, 2, 2021, pp. 121-144. 1504 births 1573 deaths Writers from Ferrara 16th-century Italian novelists 16th-century Italian poets 16th-century male writers Italian male poets University of Ferrara alumni Academic staff of the University of Ferrara Academic staff of the University of Pavia Italian male novelists