NEW DOCUMENTS ON MICHELANGELO FLORIO
In this article (Nuova Rivista Storica, Anno CVI, Settembre-Dicembre 2022, Fascicolo III) Andrea Bocchi reconstructs the confinement of Michelangelo Florio in the Roman prison in Tor di Nona and later […]
In this article (Nuova Rivista Storica, Anno CVI, Settembre-Dicembre 2022, Fascicolo III) Andrea Bocchi reconstructs the confinement of Michelangelo Florio in the Roman prison in Tor di Nona and later […]
In a letter dated December 24 1608, the Venetian ambassador Marco Antonio Correr thanked John Florio for having invited him to a special event, possibly a court masque, performed during […]
LOST CHILDREN & LIFE IN LONDON The personal life of John Florio has been the object of scattered studies these past centuries, which have thrown a new light upon his […]
THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF ITALIAN ENCOMIASTIC POETRY ADDRESSED TO AN ENGLISH SOVEREIGN When in 1604 John Florio became Groom of the Privy Chamber, he was living at court, holding a […]
New documents in the Hawthornden manuscripts show that John Florio was known among his contemporaries by the name of “Johannes”. His real name was Giovanni, but he called himself John. […]
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN FLORIO WITH THE SEAL OF HIS ARMS, HIS HANDWRITING, THE CORRECTIONS, AND MUCH MORE. On July 20 1625, at 72 years […]
A NEW DOCUMENT ON MICHELANGELO FLORIO Recently, I had the pleasure to discover a new document on Michelangelo Florio that has never come to light before, which testifies his interest […]
Read the original document handwritten by John Florio The British Library has digitised a collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton , (b. 1571, d. 1631), first […]
In a letter dated 1608, the Venetian ambassador Giorgio Giustinian asked John Florio to use his powers of rhetorical amplification for Queen Anna of Denmark. It was 1608, and John […]
John Florio’s will of July 20th, 1625 opens with a noble flourish: “John Florio of Fulham in the Countie of Middlesex Esquire ..well remembring and knowing that nothing is more […]