Walter Novellino (born 1953), Italian football player and team manager
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Augusto Novelli (1867–1927), Italian journalist, dramatist and writer also known as Novellino
The plot of the play is based on a story by Massuccio di Salerno (his Il novellino, novella xli), perhaps in the version in Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (1599, 1605).