JOHN FLORIO’S HEROIC POEM
“A dictionary haunted by a heroic poem has produced this heroic poem haunted by a dictionary.” Writer and artist Kat Addis, author of Space Parsley (the87press, 2021), has published in […]
“A dictionary haunted by a heroic poem has produced this heroic poem haunted by a dictionary.” Writer and artist Kat Addis, author of Space Parsley (the87press, 2021), has published in […]
Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts – 02-04 December 2021 Online conference – University of Passau, DE and University of Luxembourg, LUX. This […]
JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY, KIELCE. CONFERENCE “ASPECTS OF POPULAR CULTURE” John Florio is today recognised as the most important humanist in Renaissance England.He contributed to the English language with more than […]
John Florio has been widely regarded as a learned lexicographer by his biographers. But his genius actually lies in borrowing and adapting works of his predecessors. The few studies of […]
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 […]