In a letter dated December 24 1608, the Venetian ambassador Marco Antonio Correr thanked John Florio for having invited him to a special event, possibly a court masque, performed during […]
Read the original document handwritten by John Florio The British Library has digitised a collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton , (b. 1571, d. 1631), first […]
In a letter dated 1608, the Venetian ambassador Giorgio Giustinian asked John Florio to use his powers of rhetorical amplification for Queen Anna of Denmark. It was 1608, and John […]
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 […]