Marguerite de Navarre: in Shakespeare's Henry VIII, she is Wolsey's candidate as Henry's second wife, as "Duchess of Alanso

William PainterÂ’s first volume of his Palace of Pleasure (1566) had sixty tales, followed by a second with thirty-four new ones (1567). The edition of 1575 had seven new stories. As well as classical writers, Painter borrows from Boccaccio, Giraldi, Bandello, Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Straparola, and Marguerite de Navarre. Such collections provide Italian settings to much Elizabethan drama. Appius and Virginia, and Tancred and Gismund derive from The Palace of Pleasure; as do ShakespeareÂ’s Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Edward III, and All's Well That Ends Well. Courtesy of Project Gutenberg.