John Florio, Florio's Second Fruits (1591)

Date

1591

Author

John Florio Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

Florios Second Frvtes, To be gathered of twelue Trees, of diuers but delightsome tastes to the tongues of Italians and Englishmen. To which is annexed his Gardine Of Recreation yeelding six thousand Italian Prouerbs

Publication place

London

Printer

T. Orwin

Publisher

Thomas Woodcock

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Italian

Summary

Parallel Itanian and English dialogues

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: N. O La, Signor Torquato, dormirete voi tutto hoggi? N. WHat ho, M. Torquato, will you lye a bed all day? (pp. 2-3)

Alston

XII.14

STC

11097

Catalog

Scott, Mary Augusta. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 350-52. view record

Criticisms

Boutcher, Warren. "`A French dexterity, & an Italian confidence': New Documents on John Florio, Learned Strangers and Protestant Humanist Study of Modern Languages in Renaissance England from c. 1547 to c. 1625." Reformation 2 (1997): 39-110. view record
Huffman, Clifford Chalmers. "Gabriel Harvey on John Florio and John Eliot." New series. Notes & Queries 22.7 (1975 July): 300-02. view record
O'Connor, D. J. "John Florio's Contribution to Italian-English Lexicography." Italica 49 (1972): 49-67. view record
Stampanato, V. "Giovanni Florio: un amico del Bruno in Inghilterra." La Critica 21-22 (1923-24): 56-60, 113-25, 189-92, 313-17; 56-61, 116-24, 246-53. view record
Starnes, De Witt Talmage. "John Florio Reconsidered." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 6 (1964): 407-22. view record