“PERPETUAL AND NATURALL PROGNOSTICATIONS: JOHN FLORIO’S ANONYMOUS WORK UNCOVERED.” IS AVAILABLE NOW ON YOUTUBE On April 28, John Florio’s scholar Marianna Iannaccone unveiled, for the first time, John Florio’s anonymous […]
Academia della Crusca celebrates Dante with a new Italian vocabulary which contains English entries from John Florio’s dictionary To commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the Accademia della […]
Galen, Hesiod, Agrippa & many others: The breadth of his sources is exceptional. In 1591, John Florio wrote an anonymous work which has never been analysed by his scholars: Perpetual […]
“John Florio’s Italian & English Sonnets” by Marianna Iannaccone is #11 on Amazon Hot New Release: Best selling new and future releases! With new documents, this book aims to demonstrate […]
Games and pastimes are an explicit and favourite topic of the conversations, which therefore become a form of play on play. It is well known that, among Italian conversation manuals […]
RECENT RESEARCH REVEALS BRAND-NEW LIST OF BOOKS ADDED TO JOHN FLORIO’S LIBRARY When he entered the patronage of Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton, John Florio published an anonymous work […]
Author Peter G. Platt in conversation with Philippa Kelly, Dramaturg, California Shakespeare Theatre, cosponsored by California Shakespeare Theatre In this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of […]
“STOLEN PLEASURES ARE DELIGHTFUL IN THE TASTE” – READ JOHN FLORIO’S SONNET FOR #WORDPOETRYDAY Did you know that John Florio was also a poet? He wrote sonnets in both Italian […]
READ THE FIRST MONOGRAPHIC STUDY OF FIRST FRUITES In 2013, David Chidgey (University of Melbourne) published a Phd thesis on John Florio and First Fruites titled Giovanni Florio’s First Fruites […]
REGISTER HERE AND GET THE CODE TO JOIN THE VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH EVENT! On Saturday, March 13, 2021, Marianna Iannaccone, founder of John Florio’s official website, will launch her first […]