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The tragic story has inspired several writers and musicians. The Renaissance Italian author [[Matteo Bandello]] wrote on it the novel 44 of the 1st part of his ''UgoNovelle'' and(Lucca, Busdrago, 1554); on this text took inspiration the Spanish playwriter [[Lope de Vega]] to compose his most famous tragedy, Parisina''El castigo sin venganza'' ('A Punishment With no Revenge', first published 1631); Edward Gibbon told this story in his ''[[Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon|Miscellaneous Works]]'', and [[George Byron]] wrote the poem ''[[Parisina]]'' in 1816. A libretto by [[Felice Romani]] after the English poem was set to music by [[Gaetano Donizetti]] in 1833 as ''[[Parisina (opera)|Parisina]]''. [[Pietro Mascagni]] composed a tragic opera ''[[Parisina (Mascagni)|Parisina]]'' based on the lyric tragedy written by [[Gabriele D'Annunzio]] in 1912 as another adaptation of Byron's poem. There is also a lesser-known opera by [[Tomás Giribaldi]] (1878) and a tragedy by [[Antonio Somma]].