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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 …
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. …
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 …