A NEW DOCUMENT ON MICHELANGELO FLORIO Recently, I had the pleasure to discover a new document on Michelangelo Florio that has never come to…

TRAVEL, TRANSLATION, & TEXTUAL AUTHORITY IN JOHN FLORIO’S “TWO NAVIGATIONS”. During the second seminar of “Polyglot Encounters in early modern English narration” organised by…

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In 1609, John Florio asked the Venetian ambassador Giustinian to send him a book that became the source of many English court masques. With…

WATCH THE NEW VIDEO ON YOUTUBE In 1591, John Florio published the most interesting language lesson manual of the Elizabethan period: Second Fruits. SUBSCRIBE…

WATCH THE NEW VIDEO ON YOUTUBE John Florio was a close friend of an Italian fencing master who published the first manual on fencing…

FLORIO’S TRANSLATION WORKED AS BOTH LINGUISTIC EXERCISE AND A MEDITATION ON POLITICS When  King James VI of Scotland ascended to the throne of England…

JOIN THE ONLINE SEMINAR “TRAVEL AND TRANSLATION IN JOHN FLORIO’S TWO NAVIGATIONS” ON 11 NOVEMBER In an age of geographic discoveries and colonisation, easier…

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WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ITALIAN RAPIER FENCING IN SHAKESPEARE’S LIFETIME This film represents a unique look at Italian rapier fencing and the role it…