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“STOLEN PLEASURES ARE DELIGHTFUL IN THE TASTE” – READ JOHN FLORIO’S SONNET FOR #WORDPOETRYDAY Did you know that John Florio was also a poet? He wrote sonnets in both Italian …

REGISTER HERE AND GET THE CODE TO JOIN THE VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH EVENT! On Saturday, March 13, 2021, Marianna Iannaccone, founder of John Florio’s official website, will launch her first …

Author takes the 2020 John Florio Prize for her ‘exceptional’ and ‘agile’ translation from Italian of Trick by Domenico Starnone. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has won the John Florio …

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 …

TRAVEL, TRANSLATION, & TEXTUAL AUTHORITY IN JOHN FLORIO’S “TWO NAVIGATIONS”. During the second seminar of “Polyglot Encounters in early modern English narration” organised by ERC-TIDE (Oxford), the “Early Modernities” seminar …

JOIN THE ONLINE SEMINAR “TRAVEL AND TRANSLATION IN JOHN FLORIO’S TWO NAVIGATIONS” ON 11 NOVEMBER In an age of geographic discoveries and colonisation, easier communication, and international trade growing steadily …

Download and Read the paper “John Florio: erudite man or notorious magpie?” on Academia. In this article, Marianna Iannaccone explains how John Florio has been widely regarded as a learned …