'A collection of Stories translated from the Latin at end of 13th century. Many are of Eastern origin, others are anecdotes of Roman history; but all are more or less transformed by the mediæval imagination and usually endowed with a Christian moral. Stories of the Virgin, beast fables, miracles, germs of Shakespeare's plots and La Fontaine's stories, are among the multifarious contents'. =GIANNONE, PIETRO.= _b._ 1676, _d._ 1748. =Italian historian.= HISTORY OF NAPLES.... Translated by Capt. James Ogilvie. 2 v. 1729-31. =GIRALDI, CINZIO GIAMBATTISTA.= _b._ 1504, _d._ 1573. =Italian dramatist and littérateur.= GLI HECATOMITI (or The Hundred Novels). STORY OF THE MOOR OF VENICE. _Tr._ by G. B. G. C. 1795. These stories enjoyed a wide vogue in France and England, and formed matter for the exploitation of every class of our Elizabethan dramatists or writers of fiction. They have a particular interest to students of English literature as having furnished, whether directly or indirectly, the plots of 'Measure for Measure', and 'Othello'. That of the latter is said to have reached Shakespeare through the French translation, while that of the former is probably to be traced to Wheatstone's 'Promos and Cassandra' (1578), an adaptation of Cinthio's story, and to his 'Heptameron' (1582), which contains a direct English translation. To Giraldi must be also attributed Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Custom of the Country'. =GIRALDUS DE BARRI= (=CAMBRENSIS=). 12th cent. WORKS. 7 v. Vols. i-iv. _Ed._ by J. S. Brewer; vols. v-vii. _Ed._ J. F. Dimock. Rolls Ser. 1861-77. IRELAND AND WALES. _Tr._ Bohn Lbry. 1849. HISTORICAL WORKS. _Tr._ and _Ed._ by T. Wright, Bohn Lbry. 1863. =GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG.= _b._ 1749, _d._ 1832. 'The most illustrious name in German literature'. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. _Tr._ by Parke Godwin, 1847. CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN. _Tr._ by John Oxenford, 1850. ESSAYS ON ART. _Tr._ by S. G. Wood. [1840.] FAUSTUS, From the German of Goethe (1790). _Tr._ 1821. FAUSTUS: from the German of Goethe [The greater part of the 1st _trs._ in verse and connected by a prose narrative.] _Tr._ 1821. FAUST, a tragedy in two parts, rendered into English Verse (1790-1831). 1838. GOETZ OF BERLICHINGEN WITH THE IRON HAND. An historical drama (1771). _Tr._ by Rose D'Aguilar, 1795. HERMAN AND DOROTHEA: a Poem (1796-7). _Tr._ by Thos. Holcroft, 1801. IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (1779). _Tr._ by W. Taylor, 1793. LYRICAL POEMS. _Tr._ by Edgar A. Bowring, 1853. NOVELLE. _Tr._ 1837. SHORT POEMS, (_c._ 1798.) _Tr._ 1823. SORROWS OF WERTHER: a German Story. _Tr._ 1780. STELLA: a drama. _Tr._ by B. Thompson, 1801. THE TALE. _Tr._ by Thos. Carlyle, 1877. THEORY OF COLOURS. _Tr._ by C. L. Eastlake, 1840. TRAVELS IN ITALY. _Tr._ by A. J. Morrison, 1846. WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP: a novel (1777). _Tr._ by Thos. Carlyle, 1824. WILHELM MEISTER'S TRAVELS (1821). _Tr._ by Thos. Carlyle, 1827.