Date:1603
Description:A French text translated by an associate of Shakespeare. English born, John Florio, son of a protestant Italian refugee, was tutor to Lady Jane Grey, and later to Shakespeare’s patron Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Florio attended Oxford University, and wrote two Italian grammars First Fruites, (1578) and Second Fruites, (1591) and the impressive English Italian dictionary, the Worlde of Words in 1598. He also translated Montaigne’s Essayes from the French, and may himself have been the inspiration for the character of the schoolmaster, Holofernes, in Loves Labour's Lost. Full title: Michel de Montaigne,(1533-1592) The Essayes of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne now done into English by John Florio, London, Val. Sims for Edward Blount, 1603.
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