Editing Matteo Bandello (section)

==English translations of novellas==
The only nearly complete translation of Bandello's tales into English is "The novels of Matteo Bandello", translated by [[John Payne (poet)|John Payne]] in 6 volumes, 1890.<ref name="PAYNE"/> This edition is separated into 4 parts, containing 51, 43, 51, and 21 stories, respectively, for a total of 166, minus two (part 2, story 35 and part 4, story 6), omitted because of their being almost identical to those of [[Marguerite de Navarre]]'s ''[[Heptaméron]]'' (stories 30 and 17, respectively), though keeping Bandello's dedicatory preface.

There is a second book of Bandello in an English translation (1892) by [[Percy Edward Pinkerton]] and containing twelve tales.<ref name="PINKERTON"/> This translation uses more modern modes of expression than Payne's translation.

In 2023 Michael Curtotti published a translation of Bandello’s Romeo and Juliet story into modern English: ''Romeo and Juliet: A New English Translation''.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/108999927/Matteo_Bandello_Romeo_and_Juliet_A_New_English_Translation_by_Michael_Curtotti ''Matteo Bandello – Romeo and Juliet – A New English Translation by Michael Curtotti''], Canberra, Aldila Press, 2023, 196 pp.</ref> There is critical apparatus on the similarities between Bandello’s and Shakespeare’s versions; and Bandello’s text is divided into paragraphs for ease of comparison with the translation on facing pages.