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    GROOM OF THE PRIVY CHAMBER

    by Resolute John Florio 19/09/2019

    ¶ JOHN FLORIO AT COURT With the accession of James I John Florio’s life at court begins a new chapter. His best patrons were…

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About John Florio

About John Florio

- Teacher, Interpreter, Grammarian, Translator, Writer, Poet -

Giovanni Florio, known as John Florio, is recognised as the most important humanist in Renaissance's England.
He defined himself «Italus ore, Anglus pectore» and «An English Man in Italian».

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A portrait of Henry Wriothesley by Robert Dunkarton.

John Florio was a tutor of Henry and dedicated his "A World of Words" to Henry in 1598 writing:

"(..) In whose paie and patronage I have lived some yeeres; to whom I owe and vowe the yeeres I have to live."

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Today I received my first ever sixteenth-century book! A 1587 edition of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso in 24mo. Quarter for size reference.

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9 Dec

Margaret Layton’s jacket is a surviving example of English Jacobean embroidery, significant because it appears in a portrait which has also survived. Embroidered linen jackets were worn as informal dress, and were particularly popular among wealthy women c. 1590 to 1625.

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