WHY JOHN FLORIO’S AUTHORSHIP OF DECAMERON HAS BEEN UNDERMINED
AND WHY RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEEDS TO TALK ABOUT JOHN FLORIO I have had the pleasure to receive an email and a comment on this website from Dr. Richard […]
JOHN FLORIO’S A WORLD OF WORDS (1598) AS LINK BETWEEN PLOT AND SUBPLOT IN TWELFTH NIGHT
The article examines John Florio’s Italian-English dictionary “A World of Words” as a link between plot and subplot in William Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”. It discusses the relevance of Florio’s […]
FLORIO, SHAKESPEARE, AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
THE PEDANT, THE CUCKOLD, THE EVIL SPY: IT IS TIME FOR SHAKESPEARE’S SCHOLARS TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FLORIO-SHAKESPEARE AFFAIR “The Pedant Holofernes” “The Spy in Southampton household” “Ridiculed […]
SECRET STORIES ABOUT JOHN FLORIO
John Florio’s life and personality have been often distorted. So it is time for you to know who really was John Florio and how he was described by the people […]
DECAMERON IN 10 MINUTES
HOW JOHN FLORIO TRANSLATED BOCCACCIO’S DECAMERON AND WHY HE DID IT ANONYMOUSLY
ENGLISH DECAMERON
The Decameron: the English translation by John Florio published in 1620. In 1620 the English translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron was published anonymously in London by John Florio. The handsome folio […]
FOUR WORDS TO DESCRIBE JOHN FLORIO
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JOHN FLORIO: A PORTRAIT OF WORDS
John Florio created more than one thousand new words for the English language, compounds, puns and proverbs that we still use in our everyday conversations. Emotion, Management, Rough-Hew, Fresh-bleeding, All […]
MONTAIGNE’S ESSAYS & JOHN FLORIO’S FRENCH JOURNEY
What the French edition of the Essais in 1611 owed to the English translation of 1603 The 1611 edition of the Essais, published in Paris and with surviving copies bearing […]
JOHN FLORIO’S SONNETS TO QUEEN ANNE OF DENMARK
THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF ITALIAN ENCOMIASTIC POETRY ADDRESSED TO AN ENGLISH SOVEREIGN When in 1604 John Florio became Groom of the Privy Chamber, he was living at court, holding a […]