John Florio, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 118 relations: Accademia della Crusca, All Saints Church, Fulham, Anne of Denmark, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Aurelia Molins, Babington Plot, Baldassare Castiglione, Barnabe Barnes, Baynard's Castle, Ben Jonson, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Brief Lives, British Library, British Museum, Chiavenna, Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Commedia dell'arte, Crollalanza theory of Shakespeare authorship, Dante Alighieri, De Gruyter, Delio Cantimori, Edward Blount, Edward VI, Elizabethan era, English Renaissance, Eric Ives, Essays (Montaigne), Euphuism, F. O. Matthiessen, Florian theory of Shakespeare authorship, Frances Yates, Francis Walsingham, Franciscans, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fulham, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Pettie, Giordano Bruno, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, Giovanni Gentile, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Groom of the Chamber, Heliocentrism, Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, ... Expand index (68 more) »

2. 16th-century Italian translators
3. 16th-century lexicographers
4. 17th-century lexicographers
5. English Renaissance humanists
6. English people of Italian-Jewish descent
7. Grooms of the Chamber
8. Italian Protestants
9. Marian exiles

Accademia della Crusca

The, generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology.

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All Saints Church, Fulham

All Saints' Church is the ancient parish church of Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, pre-dating the Reformation.

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Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark (12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was the wife of King James VI and I. She was Queen of Scotland from their marriage on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619.

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Anthony Wood (antiquary)

Anthony Wood (17 December 1632 – 28 November 1695), who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary.

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Aurelia Molins

Aurelia Molins or Aurelia Florio (1582–1641) (known also as Celia) was an English midwife.

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Babington Plot

The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne.

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Baldassare Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico (6 December 1478 – 2 February 1529),Dates of birth and death, and cause of the latter, from, Italica, Rai International online. John Florio and Baldassare Castiglione are 16th-century Italian male writers.

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Barnabe Barnes

Barnabe Barnes (c. 1571 – 1609) was an English poet.

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Baynard's Castle

Baynard's Castle refers to buildings on two neighbouring sites in the City of London, between where Blackfriars station and St Paul's Cathedral now stand.

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.

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Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati

The Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati is the public library located at #3 of the comune of Siena, in Tuscany, Italy.

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Brief Lives

Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Chiavenna

Chiavenna (Ciavèna; Clavenna; Clavenna or Claven; archaic Cläven or Kleven) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.

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Clara Longworth de Chambrun

Clara Eleanor Longworth de Chambrun, Comtesse de Chambrun (October 18, 1873 – June 1, 1954) was an American patron of the arts and scholar of Shakespeare.

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Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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The Crollalanza theory of Shakespeare's identity posits that Shakespeare was an Italian called Michelangelo Florio a.k.a. "Crollalanza", whose mother's family name is variously given as Crollalanza or Scrollalanza ("shake-speare").

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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De Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Delio Cantimori

Delio Cantimori (1904–1966) was an Italian academic, historian, political writer and translator.

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Edward Blount

Edward Blount (or Blunt) (1562–1632) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras, noted for his publication, in conjunction with William and Isaac Jaggard, of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623.

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Edward VI

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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English Renaissance

The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Eric Ives

Eric William Ives (12 July 1931 – 25 September 2012) was a British historian who was an expert on the Tudor period, and a university administrator.

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Essays (Montaigne)

The Essays (Essais) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length.

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Euphuism

Euphuism is a peculiar mannered style of English prose.

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F. O. Matthiessen

Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.

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Florian theory of Shakespeare authorship

The Florian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that the Protestant pastor Michelangelo Florio (1515–1566) or his son the English lexicographer John Florio (1552–1625), or both, wrote the plays of William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

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Frances Yates

Dame Frances Amelia Yates (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English historian of the Renaissance, who wrote books on the history of esotericism.

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Francis Walsingham

Sir Francis Walsingham (– 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Fulham

Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628) was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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George Pettie

George Pettie (1548–1589) was an English writer of romances.

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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist. John Florio and Giordano Bruno are 16th-century Italian male writers.

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Giovanni Battista Giraldi

Giovanni Battista Giraldi (November 1504 – 30 December 1573) was an Italian novelist and poet. John Florio and Giovanni Battista Giraldi are 16th-century Italian male writers.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

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Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli

Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli (1550-1608) was a Venetian diplomat based in London at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I and the beginning of the reign of James VI and I. Scaramelli was a secretary rather than an ambassador.

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Giovanni Gentile

Giovanni Gentile (30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian philosopher, fascist politician, and pedagogue.

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Grand Duchy of Tuscany

The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Granducato di Toscana; Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) was an Italian monarchy that existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1860, replacing the Republic of Florence.

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Groom of the Chamber

Groom of the Chamber was a position in the Household of the monarch in early modern England. John Florio and Groom of the Chamber are Grooms of the Chamber.

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Heliocentrism

Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.

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Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby

Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, KG (28 June 1573 – 20 January 1643/4) was an English soldier.

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Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, KG, KB (19 January 1601) was an English peer and politician.

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Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby

Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby KG (September 1531 – 25 September 1593) was a prominent English nobleman, diplomat, and politician.

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Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, (pronunciation uncertain: "Rezley", "Rizely" (archaic), (present-day) and have been suggested; 6 October 1573 – 10 November 1624) was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu.

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Index Librorum Prohibitorum

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum (English: Index of Forbidden Books) was a changing list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Sacred Congregation of the Index (a former Dicastery of the Roman Curia); Catholics were forbidden to print or read them, subject to the local bishop.

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Inquisition

The Inquisition was a judicial procedure and a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered deviant.

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Jacobean era

The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era.

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Jacopo Sannazaro

Jacopo Sannazaro (28 July 1458 – 6 August 1530) was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.

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Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier (Jakez Karter; 31 December 14911 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625. John Florio and James VI and I are 1625 deaths.

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John Aubrey

John Aubrey (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer.

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John Lyly

John Lyly (c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606; also spelled Lilly, Lylie, Lylly) was an English writer, playwright, courtier, and parliamentarian.

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John Williams (goldsmith)

John Williams was a Welsh-born goldsmith based in London who worked for the royal family.

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John Willinsky

John Willinsky (born 1950) is a Canadian educator, activist, and author.

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Koper

Koper (Capodistria; Kopar) is the fifth largest city in Slovenia.

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Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey (– 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley after her marriage and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from 10 to 19 July 1553.

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Lake Como

Lake Como (Lago di Como), also known as Lario, is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of, making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over deep, it is the fifth-deepest lake in Europe and the deepest outside Norway; the bottom of the lake is below sea level.

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Leicester's Men

The Earl of Leicester's Men was a playing company or troupe of actors in English Renaissance theatre, active mainly in the 1570s and 1580s in the reign of Elizabeth I. In many respects, it was the major company in Elizabethan drama of its time, and established the pattern for the companies that would follow: it was the first to be awarded a royal patent, and the first to occupy one of the new public theatres on a permanent basis.

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Lexicography

Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines.

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List of Shakespeare authorship candidates

Claims that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works traditionally attributed to him were first explicitly made in the 19th century, though supporters of the theory often argue that coded assertions of alternative authorship exist in texts dating back to Shakespeare's lifetime.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford

Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (Harington; 1581–1627) was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a letter-writer, and a poet. John Florio and Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford are Household of Anne of Denmark.

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Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Mary Sidney

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567.

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Matteo Bandello

Matteo Bandello (1480–1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, Dominican friar and bishop, known mostly for his novellas. John Florio and Matteo Bandello are 16th-century Italian male writers.

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Michel de Castelnau

Michel de Castelnau, Sieur de la Mauvissière (c. 1520–1592) was a French soldier and diplomat, ambassador to Queen Elizabeth.

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance.

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Michelangelo Florio

Michelangelo Florio (1515–1566), possibly born in Florence, dead in Soglio, was the son of a Franciscan friar, before converting to Protestantism. John Florio and Michelangelo Florio are Italian Protestants.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. John Florio and Niccolò Machiavelli are 16th-century Italian male writers.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.

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Nola

Nola is a town and a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy.

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Orlando Furioso

Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture.

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Padua

Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.

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Paolo Giovio

Paolo Giovio (also spelled Paulo Jovio; Latin: Paulus Jovius; 19 April 1483 – 11 December 1552) was an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate.

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Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire

Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount (née Devereux; January 1563 – 7 July 1607) was an English court office holder. John Florio and Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire are Household of Anne of Denmark.

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Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

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Pier Paolo Vergerio

Pier Paolo Vergerio (1498 – 4 October 1565), the Younger, was an Italian papal nuncio and later Protestant reformer.

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Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino (19 or 20 April 1492 – 21 October 1556) was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.

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Richard Hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt (1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer.

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Richard Tarlton

Richard Tarlton (died September 1588) was an English actor of the Elizabethan era.

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Robert Anderson (editor and biographer)

Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic.

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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, (24 June 1532 – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death.

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Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland

Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (6 October 1576 – 26 June 1612) was the eldest surviving son of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland and his wife, Elizabeth nee Charleton (d. 1595).

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Samuel Daniel

Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean eras. John Florio and Samuel Daniel are Grooms of the Chamber and Household of Anne of Denmark.

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Shakespeare authorship question

The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him.

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Soglio, Switzerland

Soglio is a village and a former municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of the Grisons close to the border with Italy.

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Sonnet

The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.

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Stephen Gosson

Stephen Gosson (April 1554 – 13 February 1624) was an English satirist.

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Tübingen

Tübingen (Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Terence

Publius Terentius Afer (–), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright during the Roman Republic.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Thomas Thorpe

Thomas Thorpe (1569 – 1625) was an English publisher, most famous for publishing Shakespeare's sonnets and several works by Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.

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Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso (also,; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem of 1099.

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Tuscany

Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.

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University of Zurich

The University of Zurich (UZH, Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Volpone

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable.

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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 15204 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572.

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William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1570)

William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, 1st Baron Herbert of Cardiff (c. 150117 March 1570) was a Tudor period nobleman, politician, and courtier.

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William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (8 April 158010 April 1630), of Wilton House in Wiltshire, was an English nobleman, politician and courtier.

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William Hole (engraver)

William Hole or Holle (died 1624) was an English engraver.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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William Vaughan (writer)

Sir William Vaughan (c. 1575August 1641) was a Welsh writer in English and Latin.

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Wilton House

Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, which has been the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years.

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Yale University Library

The Yale University Library is the library system of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Zorzi Giustinian

Zorzi Giustinian was an ambassador of the Republic of Venice serving in London from 1606 to 1608 and Vienna in 1618. John Florio and Zorzi Giustinian are court of James VI and I.

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See also

16th-century Italian translators

• Annibale Caro
• Bernardo Davanzati
• Celso Cittadini
• Gregorio Cortese
• Isidoro Chiari
• Jacob Mantino ben Samuel
• John Florio
• Lodovico Domenichi
• Marcantonio Flaminio
• Raffaele Maffei
• Vincenzo Cartari
• Zanobi Acciaioli

16th-century lexicographers

• Conrad Gessner
• Henricus Hornkens
• Henry Salisbury
• John Florio
• Pedro de Alcalá
• Richard Huloet

17th-century lexicographers

• Henry Salisbury
• Jeremias Felbinger
• John Florio
• Pierre Bayle
• Yusuf al-Maghribi

English Renaissance humanists

• Anthony Cooke
• Daniel Rogers (diplomat)
• Henry Bullock
• John Ankwyll
• John Case (Aristotelian writer)
• John Cheke
• John Claymond
• John Clement (physician)
• John Colet
• John Doget
• John Fisher
• John Florio
• John Ponet
• John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester
• Leonard Cox
• Polydore Vergil
• Ralph Robinson (humanist)
• Ralph Winterton
• Richard Croke
• Richard Foxe
• Richard Hyrde
• Richard Morrison (ambassador)
• Richard Pace
• Robert Wakefield
• Roger Ascham
• Stephen Gardiner
• Thomas Blundeville
• Thomas Elyot
• Thomas Linacre
• Thomas Lupset
• Thomas More
• Thomas Smith (diplomat)
• Thomas Starkey
• Walter Haddon
• William Celling
• William Grocyn
• William Latimer (priest)

English people of Italian-Jewish descent

• Andrew Ridgeley
• Baron (photographer)
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Charlotte Montefiore
• Christopher Finzi
• Emma Kingston
• Evelyn de Rothschild
• George Basevi
• Gerald Finzi
• Isaac D'Israeli
• James Cervetto
• John Berger
• John Florio
• June Brown
• Michael Costa (conductor)
• Robert Halfon
• Robert Plumer Ward
• Robert Rietti

Grooms of the Chamber

• Edward Cary (died 1618)
• Ferdinando Richardson
• George Brediman
• George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth
• George Kirke
• Groom of the Chamber
• Hatton Compton
• Henry Bromley (died 1615)
• Henry Goodere (courtier)
• Henry Middlemore
• John Eyre (died 1639)
• John Florio
• John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale
• John Tamworth
• Michael Stanhope (died c. 1621)
• Robert Mansell
• Samuel Daniel
• Silius Titus
• Sir John Dyer, 6th Baronet
• William Killigrew (Chamberlain of the Exchequer)

Italian Protestants

• Alberico Gentili
• Celso Sozzini
• Collegia Vicentina
• Fausto Sozzini
• Fortunato de Felice, 2nd Count Panzutti
• Francesco Cellario
• Francesco Spiera
• Francesco Stancaro
• Giacomo Castelvetro
• Gian Paolo Alciati
• Giorgio Bulgari
• Gregorio Leti
• John Florio
• Lelio Sozzini
• Leone Levi
• Martino Muralto
• Michelangelo Florio
• Olympia Fulvia Morata
• Piero Jahier

Marian exiles

• Alexander Nowell
• Anthony Cooke
• Anthony Mieres
• Arthur Saul (canon)
• Bartholomew Traheron
• Christopher Goodman
• Dorothy Stafford
• Edmund Grindal
• Edward Isaac
• Edwin Sandys (bishop)
• Elizabeth Stafford
• François Peruçel de la Rivière
• Gilbert Berkeley
• Henry Neville (Gentleman of the Privy Chamber)
• James Pilkington (bishop)
• Joan Wilkinson (died 1556)
• John Aylmer (bishop)
• John Bale
• John Cheke
• John Florio
• John Foxe
• John Ponet
• John Scory
• Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
• Leonard Pilkington
• Marian exiles
• Myles Coverdale
• Perceval Wiburn
• Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• Peter Morwen
• Philemon Holland
• Richard Bertie (courtier)
• Richard Cox (bishop)
• Richard Turner (reformer)
• Robert Horne (bishop)
• Roger Kelke
• Rose Lok
• Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent
• Thomas Bickley
• Thomas Lever
• Thomas Sampson
• Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)
• Thomas Wroth (died 1573)
• William Bradbridge
• William Cole (Dean of Lincoln)
• William Fyeneux
• William Kethe
• William Stafford (courtier)
• William Whittingham

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Florio

Also known as A Worlde of Wordes, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, Florio, John, Florio, John, 1553, Giovanni Florio.

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