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Brabantio
Brabantio (sometimes called Brabanzio) is a character in William Shakespeare's ''Othello'' (c.1601–1604). He is a Venetian senator and the father of Desdemona. He has entertained Othello in his home countless times before the play opens, thus giving Othello and Desdemona opportunity to fall in love. He is furious upon learning they have eloped, and Desdemona's decision is reported to be the cause of his death in the last act. The character has no counterpart in Shakespeare's source material for the play but is apparently the Bard's complete invention. He appears in the first act only and is mentioned in the fifth.
==Origin==
''Othello'' has its source in the 1565 tale "Un Capitano Moro" from Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's ''Gli Hecatommithi'', a collection of 100 tales in the vein of Boccacio's ''Decameron.'' While no English translation of Cinthio was available in Shakespeare's lifetime, it is possible Shakespeare knew both the Italian original and Gabriel Chappuy's 1584 French translation. He may have had access to an English translation in manuscript. Cinthio's tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508.〔 Bevington, p.371.〕
While the principal characters in Shakespeare's play have their counterparts in Cinthio's tale, Brabantio is Shakespeare's invention. The relatives of Cinthio's Disdemona 〔"Disdemona" is the spelling for Cinthio's character〕 avenge her death in the closing moments of his tale, but her father is not mentioned as being among them.
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