The article examines John Florio’s Italian-English dictionary “A World of Words” as a link between plot and subplot in William Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”.…
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THE PEDANT, THE CUCKOLD, THE EVIL SPY: IT IS TIME FOR SHAKESPEARE’S SCHOLARS TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FLORIO-SHAKESPEARE AFFAIR “The Pedant Holofernes”…
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HOW JOHN FLORIO TRANSLATED BOCCACCIO’S DECAMERON AND WHY HE DID IT ANONYMOUSLY
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The Decameron: the English translation by John Florio published in 1620. In 1620 the English translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron was published anonymously in London…
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John Florio created more than one thousand new words for the English language, compounds, puns and proverbs that we still use in our everyday…
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What the French edition of the Essais in 1611 owed to the English translation of 1603 The 1611 edition of the Essais, published in…
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