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See also:BANDELLO, MATTEO (1480-1562) , See also:Italian novelist, was See also:born at Castelnuovo, near See also:Tortona, about the See also:year 1480. He received a very careful See also:education, and entered the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, though he does not seem to have prosecuted his theological course with See also:great zeal. For many years he resided at See also:Mantua, and superintended the education of the celebrated Lucrezia See also:Gonzaga, in whose See also:honour he composed a See also:long poem. The decisive See also:battle of See also:Pavia, which gave See also:Lombardy into the hands of the See also:emperor, compelled Bandellb to See also:fly; his See also:house at See also:Milan was burnt and his See also:property confiscated. He took See also:refuge with Cesare Fregoso, an Italian See also:general in the See also:French service, whom he accompanied into See also:France. In 1550 he was raised to the bishopric of See also:Agen, a See also:town in whichhe resided for many years before his See also:death in 1562. Bandello wrote a number of poems, but his fame rests entirely upon his extensive collection of Novelle, or tales (1554, 1573), which have been extremely popular. They belong to that See also:species of literature of which See also:Boccaccio's Decameron and the See also:queen of See also:Navarre's Heptameron are, perhaps, the best known examples. The See also:common origin of them all is to be found in the old French fabliaux, though some well-known tales are evidently Eastern, and others classical. Bandello's novels are esteemed the best of those written in See also:imitation of the Decameron, though Italian critics find See also:fault with them for See also:negligence and inelegance of See also:style. They have little value from a purely See also:literary point of view, and many of them are disfigured by the grossest See also:obscenity. Historically, however, they are of no little See also:interest, not only from the insight into the social See also:life of the See also:period which they afford, but from the important See also:influence they exercised on the Elizabethan See also:drama. The stories on which See also:Shakespeare based several of his plays were supplied by Bandello, probably through Belleforest or See also:Paynter.
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