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| Rich, Barnabe |
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| 15401620, English author and soldier. He wrote several collections of prose fiction based on Italian novellas, including The Strange and the Wonderful Adventures of Don Simonides (1581). His Apolonius and Silla, in Riche, His Farewell to the Military Profession (1581), was one of Shakespeares sources for the plot of Twelfth Night. |
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