Boccaccio’s Decameron was translated anonymously by John Florio and published in 1620. This essay analyses John Florio’s style and voice of his translation of the famous work of Giovanni Boccaccio. […]
John Florio is the main protagonist of a new study about learning languages in Early Modern England. Written by John Gallagher, “Learning Languages in Early Modern England” is the first […]
Queen Anna’s New World of Words embraces nearly 74,000 definitions. Not only was the volume almost twice larger than its predecessor, containing about 75.000 definitions, but in the preparing of […]
Ben Jonson wrote in a copy of Volpone he gave to John Florio that he was the “Ayde of His Muses”. Jeremy Lester’s essay argues a far deeper implication of […]