FLORIO JOURNAL

John Florio’s collaboration with Ben Jonson in writing Volpone is well documented by a copy of the play that Jonson dedicated to Florio, praising him as “his loving father” and …

Thomas Spencer Baynes, (1823 – 1887) was an English philosopher, man of letters and editor of the ninth edition of Encyclopædia Britannica up to and including the 11th volume. He himself wrote …

MANY FLORIO FANS ARE LOOKING FOR HIS LIBRARY AROUND THE WORLD. HERE’S THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO FIND JOHN FLORIO’S LOST BOOKS. Two years before his death, at 70 years old, …

LA TESTIMONIANZA DEI VENEZIANISMI IN FLORIO, CORYATE E JONSON Author: Ronnie Ferguson | Language: Italian | Permalink This documentary analysis of seventeenth-century written English highlights the presence of words borrowed …

This document is a collection of various dialogues extracted from John Florio’s First Fruits (1578) and Second Fruits (1591) accompanied by images of the 16th century illustrating the dialogues.

It was 1603 when John Florio published what is today considered not just a work of art, but the most important translation ever published during the Elizabethan period: the Essays …

ABSTRACT:  John Florio, an Elizabethan humanist of Anglo-Italian origin, published in 1598 the first edition of an Italian-English dictionary under the title of “A Worlde of Wordes.” This lexicographic work is presented as a bridge …

In this article D. J. O’ Connor analyses John Florio’s dictionaries and his contribution to Italian-English lexicography. Author: D.J. O’ Connor | Language: English

This paper looks at John Florio’s comments on translation — especially in the Epistle Dedicatorie and To the Curteous Reader of his 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essayes — and examines …

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. …