Sources
The dramatists drew their plot from two tales in The Orator (1596) by "Lazarus Pyott" (perhaps a pseudonym of Anthony Munday). The characters' names derive from The Historie of Philip De Commines, in Thomas Danett's English translation (1596/1601). Fletcher may also have drawn upon the Controversiae of Seneca the Elder.
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