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Giovanni Battista Giraldi
Italian novelist and poet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giovanni Battista Giraldi (November[1] 1504 – 30 December 1573) was an Italian novelist and poet. He appended the nickname Cinthio to his name and is commonly referred to by that name (which is also rendered as Cynthius, Cintio or, in Italian, Cinzio).
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