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William Painter

 
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: William Painter
Painter, William, 1540?-1594, English translator. His Palace of Pleasure (1566-67)-a collection of translations from Boccaccio, the Heptameron, and many other sources-was drawn upon by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists.
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