(perhaps) Ariosto, Lodovico. Orlando Furioso. Trans. John Harington (1591). Bk. 5.

(perhaps) Bandello, Matteo. Novelle (1554). 1.22.

(perhaps) Belleforest, François de. Histoires Traguiques (collection of tales, pr. 1560-1580).

(perhaps) Munday, Anthony. Fedele and Fortunio (perf. 1584).

(perhaps) Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (1590). 2.4.16-38.

(perhaps) Whetstone, George. The Rock of Regard (collection of tales, 1576). The story of Rinaldo and Giletta.

REFERENCE : Sheldon P. Zitner, ed. Much Ado About Nothing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 6-14.