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LATEST ARTICLES
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Shakespeare’s “debt” to Montaigne may be more properly seen as his debt to John Florio. This paper by Philip Hendrick (University of Ulster) looks in detail at those sections of …
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This dissertation, titled Transferring Paremias. Cultural, Linguistic, and Literary Transitions of Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by Vincenzo Brusantino, Pompeo Sarnelli, and John Florio by Daniela D’Eugenio of the City University …
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When he became tutor of Henry Wriothesley, John Florio took part in the Danvers Long drama, backing Henry’s friends in their efforts to escape. One of the most accepted date …
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During his stay at Titchfield as tutor of Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton, between the years 1589 to 1598, John Florio got in contact with an Italian fencing master …
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In his masque-like play “The White Devil”, John Webster worked with a precious collaborator: John Florio. This past century, playwright John Webster has gained in prominence within the canon of …
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This MA dissertation, written by Tina Kover, will subject Florio’s life and career through the lens of Greenblatt’s theory of self-fashioning, analysing the prefaces of four of Florio’s books, in …
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In 1582 John Florio confessed to the poet Edward Dyer that he was not a teacher by profession, and was forced to adopt this means of earning a living, making …
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John Florio has been widely regarded as a learned lexicographer by his biographers. But his genius actually lies in borrowing and adapting works of his predecessors. The few studies of …
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In a letter dated 1608, the Venetian ambassador Giustinian asked John Florio to use his powers of rhetorical amplification for Queen Anne of Denmark. It was 1608, and John Florio …
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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 …