William Painter (or Paynter, c. 1540 – between 19 and 22 February 1595) was an English author and translator. As a clerk of the Ordnance in the Tower of London, he was accused of fraud aimed at amassing a personal fortune at public expense. He is best known for his anthology of translations, The Palace of Pleasure. (From Wikipedia)
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Painter, William, 1540?-1594: The Palace of Pleasure: Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Margaret of Navarre, and Others (4th edition, 3 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1890), ed. by Joseph Jacobs and Joseph Haslewood, contrib. by Giovanni Boccaccio, Matteo Bandello, Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and Queen Marguerite
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Painter, William, 1540?-1594: [Chaucer newly painted] [by William Painter]. ([S.l. : G. Eld and M. Flesher, 1623]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Antiprognosticon contra inutiles astrologorum prædictiones Nostradami, Cuninghami, Lovi, Hilli, Vaghami, & reliquorum omnium. English ([Imprinted at London : By Henry Sutton dwellyng in Pater noster row at the signe of the blacke boy, the. 23. day of December. And are there to be solde. Perused and allovved according to the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.] 1560), also by William Fulke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their seuerall aunswers, in matters of loue, naturall causes, with morall and politique deuises. Newely translated out of Frenche into Englishe, this present yere of our Lorde God. 1566 (Imprinted at London : In Paules Churchyarde by Iohn Cawood for Nicholas Englande, [1566]), also by Ortensio Landi and Alain Chartier (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their severall aunswers, in matters of love, naturall causes, with morall and politique devises. (London : printed by B. Alsop. and T[homas]. F[awcet]. for Daniel Frere, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Red Bull in little Britaine, 1640), also by Ortensio Landi, T. S., and Thomas Rawlins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: An Elizabethan story-book : famous tales from the Palace of pleasure (Longmans, Green, 1928), also by Peter Haworth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: A moorning diti vpon the deceas of the most nobl prins Henry Earl of Arvndel ... (Imprinted at London : by Iohn Allde, [1580]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: The palace of pleasure, beautified, adorned, and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent novels. Very requisite for delight and profit. Chosen and selected out of divers good and commendable authors. (Reprinted for R. Triphook, by Harding and Wright, 1813), also by Joseph Haslewood, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Matteo Bandello (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: The palace of pleasure, beautified, adorned, and well furnished with pleasant histories and excellent novels. Very requisite for delight and profit. Chosen and selected out of divers good and commendable authors. (Reprinted for R. Triphook, by Harding and Wright, 1813), also by Joseph Haslewood, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Matteo Bandello (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Palace of pleasure. Vol. 1 ([London] : 1566. Imprinted at London, by [John Kingston and] Henry Denham, for Richard Tottell and William Iones[. These bookes are to be solde at the long shoppe at the weast ende of Paules], [1566 (26 Jan.)]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Palace of pleasure. Vol. 2 (Imprinted at London : In Pater Noster Rowe, by Henry Bynneman, for Nicholas England, [1567]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Romeo and Juliet (Published by T. Rodd, ..., 1800), also by Arthur Brooke and Matteo Bandello (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: Romeo and Juliet (Henry Altemus, 1901), also by William Shakespeare and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: The royall king and loyall subject (The University, 1906), also by Thomas Heywood, Kate Watkins Tibbals, and Matteo Bandello (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painter, William, 1540?-1594: The royall king and loyall subject (The University, 1906), also by Thomas Heywood, Kate Watkins Tibbals, and Matteo Bandello (page images at HathiTrust)
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