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Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinzio, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, Re Michele I di Romania
Hecatommithi, 1566
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The Ecatommiti , & nbsp; l a collection of short stories that Giraldi Cinzio had worked on since his youth, it was printed for the first time in 1565 in Mondovì. They are a collection of & nbsp; one hundred and thirteen short stories arranged in ten days. & Nbsp; Some of the short stories & nbsp; present the same story of seven Giraldian tragedies, even if it is not possible to establish precisely whether the narrative or the theatrical text was composed first: yes is about & nbsp; Orbecche, Altile, Antivalomeni, Selene, Eufimia, Epitia, Arrenopia < / span> . From & nbsp; stories Ecatommiti & nbsp; also come the plots of two Shakespearean tragedies < / b>: & nbsp; Otello < i> & nbsp; comes from the seventh story of the third day, & nbsp; Measure by measure & nbsp; from the fifth story of the eighth day, which tells the story of Epitia .
The copy is enriched by the splendid binding of the goldsmith Melchior Dinglinger , goldsmith of the court of King Johann Georg IV and King August I of Saxony. & nbsp; Many of his works can be found in the Grünes Gewölbe museum in Dresden.