In his translation of Montaigne’s Essays, Florio champions translation as the most useful route for advancing knowledge and developing the language and culture of a nation. Montaigne’s Essays by John […]
This paper by Philip Hendrick (University of Ulster) looks in detail at those sections of Florio’s translation of Des Cannibales that may have had an influence on The Tempest. His […]
It was 1603 when John Florio published what is today considered not just a work of art, but the most important translation ever published during the Elizabethan period: the Essays […]
Montaigne’s Essays by John Florio is highly regarded as a work of art as well as one of the most popular and influential Elizabethan translations. ¶ MONTAIGNE’S ESSAYS June 4th, […]
During the Memory episode of the BBC Radio 3 program Words and Music, the Olivier Award-winning stage actor Tom Hiddleston read an excerpt from Chapter XVII, Of Presumption, of John Florio’s translation […]