Second Fruits is John Florio’s second work. Entitled Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues…
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¶ A WORLD OF WORDS: A TRAILBLAZING ENTERPRISE While he was engaged in the service of Henry Wriothesley, Florio produced a work which remains…
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¶ NEW WORLD OF WORDS Florio’s magnum opus as lexicographer was his augmented dictionary Queen Anna’s New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the…
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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…
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Queen’s Anna New World of Words embraces nearly 74,000 definitions. Not only was the volume almost twice larger than its predecessor, containing about 75.000…
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