WHY JOHN FLORIO ALIAS SHAKESPEARE?

“There are two essential influences in Shakespeare’s works: they are the Neapolitan philosopher Giordano Bruno and the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne.” Why John Florio & Shakespeare? Article by Michel Vaïs […]

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JOHN FLORIO BEHIND THE MASK OF SHAKESPEARE

Marc Goldschmit: John Florio behind the mask of Shakespeare Marc Goldschmit: Author of “Jacques Derrida, une introduction” (Agora-Pocket, 2003); “L’écriture du messianique. La philosophie secrète de Walter Benjamin” (Hermann, 2010). […]

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FIFTEEN REASONS FOR JOHN FLORIO

FIFTEEN REASONS FOR JOHN FLORIO, THE MAN WHO INVENTED SHAKESPEAREby Lamberto Tassinari 1. John Florio added more than one thousand new words to the English language, the samecontribution attributed to […]

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JOHN FLORIO & THOMAS THORPE

John Florio had a close relationship with Thomas Thorpe. Thomas Thorpe, in 1610, published a translation from Epictetus his Manuall and he dedicated this work to John Florio, reminding Thorpe that […]

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SHAKESPEARE & ITALIAN LANGUAGE

SHAKESPEARE & ITALIAN LANGUAGE In 1994, Naseeb Shaheen, in his book Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Italian proved beyond all doubt that Shakespeare had a very strong knowledge of the Italian language. In […]

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