Mathieu Bandello

Mathieu Bandello , or Matteo Bandelo , born in 1480 with Castelnuovo Scrivia in the Piedmont, died in 1561, is a Italian Romancier .

Dominican, it taught the Belles-Lettres with Milan, and gave lessons to famous the Lucrèce Gonzague. The Spanish S being returned Masters of Milan in 1525, it took refuge in France in the Lot-et-Garonne with the general César Frégoso, and was named by Henri II, in 1550, bishop of Agen; it dislocated its functions at the end of 5 years.

One has of him:

of the Nouvelles , in the kind of Boccace which were translated by Pierre Boaistuau into French and François de Belleforest, Paris, 1580
of various poetries (reprinted with Turin in 1816)
Romeo and Juliette which William Shakespeare took as a starting point.

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