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A WORLD OF WORDES

by Resolute John Florio 19/09/2019

¶ A WORLD OF WORDS: A TRAILBLAZING ENTERPRISE While he was engaged in the service of the Queen at court, Florio produced a work…

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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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Laura Estill @Laura_Estill·

10 Dec

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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Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones @LloydLlewJ·

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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