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Shakespeare drew his material for this play from Jorge de Montemayor's Diana (1559?), a popular Spanish romance that he may have read in a French translation.

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1561: Jorge de Montemayor This Portuguese-born musician and author wrote the first Spanish pastoral novel: Los Siete Libros de la Diana (The Seven Books of the Diana). The work was inspired in part by Jacopo Sannazzaro's pastoral romance Arcadia, and, undergoing many editions, became widely translated and started a literary fashion in the Renaissance. William Shakespeare used Bartholomew Young's translation of Diana as a source for his play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Montemayor served Philip II's first wife and went with the Crown Prince to England when he married Mary Tudor. He was murdered in Italy, supposedly in a love feud.

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