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    Giovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor...
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  • Samuel's sister and therefore John Florio's wife. Thus, he says, Avisa Florio was the Dark Lady. The speculations that Florio’s wife, of whatever baptismal...
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    Johannes Florio, known as John Florio. They have pointed out how "Johannes" was the Latin version of John (Giovanni), and the name by which Florio was known...
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  • The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts...
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    that the Protestant pastor Michelangelo Florio (1515–1566) or his son the English lexicographer John Florio (1552–1625), or both, wrote the plays of...
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  • England and Switzerland, and father of the renaissance humanist John Florio. Michelangelo Florio was born in Tuscany. The precise city of his birth is unknown...
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    and translator John Florio, who was an Italian tutor at the university at the time. In 1582, Daniel contributed a Latin verse to Florio's Giardino di Recreatione...
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  • Florio is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alba Florio (1910–2011), Italian poet Ermanno Florio (born 1954), Italian-born...
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  • Tassinari (born 1945) is a writer and editor best known for his book John Florio: The Man Who Was Shakespeare. He is one of the founders of the transcultural...
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    16th-century theatre and the life of the linguist and lexicographer John Florio. In 1941, she was employed by the Warburg Institute in London, and began...
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