sentences:  For "rule mongers" (the term is Giordano Bruno's), "mixed" works such as those mentioned above, more recent "romances" such as "Orlando Furioso", and even "The Odyssey" were at best puzzles; at worst, mistakes.Two figures helped to elevate tragicomedy to the status of a regular genre, by which is meant one with its own set of rigid rules.Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, in the mid-sixteenth century, both argued that the tragedy-with-comic-ending ("tragedia de lieto fin") was most appropriate to modern times and produced his own examples of such plays.