{"id":"01KG8B587DAA41JH1KSS30MN5E","cid":"bafkreiad7dtjh7d6quhus7zqrgsqmsjnwacw3i73grksqml36iyact72fq","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiai4zqpupu77wavazx64ra4rqpvkbr3bojyyloo4mcym4rrg52u5u","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0151.jpg","height":2400,"key":"pdf-page-1769806643968-118qi5w5nq3","label":"02_venus_and_adonis_1905_facsimile_page_0151.jpg","page_number":151,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":583980,"text":"LUCRECE\ni|.\nhousehold\n;\nTarquin\nwarns\nLucrece\nhe\nwill place.\nat\nher\nside\n<some worthless\nslave of\nthine\n',\ni.\ne.\nof\nLucrece\n(f\ni\nf).\nChaucer\nand\nBandello\nare\nboth\nhere\nin\nagreement\nwith\nShakespeare\n(cf.\nChaucer's\n<thy knave'\nin\nLegend^\n1807;\nand\nBandello's\n<\nuno\ndei\ntuoi\nservi\n').\nFrom\neither,\nthe\nEnglish\npoet\nmighthave\nadopted\nthe\ndetail.\nIn\nany\ncase\nhe\nowed\nnothing,\nat\nthis\npoint,\nto\nPainter.\nJn\nhis\nexpansive\nand\ndiscursive\nhandling\nof the\ntheme\nBanddlo's\nShakespeare\ndiffers\nfrom\nall\nhis\npredecessors\nsave\none.\nIn\nthat\n\"°''^''\nregard\nhe can\nonly\nbe\ncompared\nwith\nthe\nItalian\nnovelist\nBan-\ndello. Bandello\nmainly\ndepends\non\nLivy\nand\nis\nsparing of\npoetic\nornament.\nBut\nhe\nprolongs\nthe\nspeeches\nof\nthe\nheroinewith\na\nliberality\nto\nwhich\nShakespeare's\npoem\nalone\noffers\na\nparallel.\nBandello's\nlong-winded\nnovel\nwas accessible\nin a\nFrench version\n—\nin\nthe\n<\nHistoires\nTragiques\n'of\nFranqois\nde\nBelleforest.\nShakespearean\nstudents\nknow\nthat\nBandello's collection\nof\ntales,\neither\nin\nthe\noriginal\nItalian,\nor\nin\nthe\nFrench\ntranslation,\nwas\nthe\nfinal\nsource\nof\nthe plot of\nat\nleast\nfour\nof\nShakespeare's\nplays,\n— K^meo\nand\nJuliet^\nMuch\nAdo\nabout\nNothings Twelfth Nighty\nand\nHamlet.\nIt\nis\nnot\ncustomary\nto\nassociate\nShakespeare's\npoem\nof Lucrece\nwith\nBandello's work,\nbut,\nalthough\nthe resemblances\nmayprove\nto\nbe\naccidental,\nthey\nare\nsufficient\nto\nsuggest\nthe\npossibility\nthat\nShakespeare had recourse\nto\nthe\nItalian\nnovelist,\nwhen penning\nhis\nsecond\nnarrative\npoem.\nOne parallel between Bandello's novel and Shakespeare's\nLucrece will suffice. Livy emphasizes more deliberately than\nOvid the pretence of madness in Brutus, the avenger of\nLucrece's wrong. Bandello liberally developed Livy's notice\nof Brutus' mysterious behaviour on lines which Shakespeare\nseems to have followed. Brutus was, according to Shake-\nspeare's poem, < supposed a fool ' (i 8 1 9) :—","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:23.968Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1632},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4X0DM39SSQK43XXG34R","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:57:48.013Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:58:35.248Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}