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“As for critics I accompt of them as crickets (…) they lurke in corners but catch cold if they look out (…) they are bred of filth & fed with filth, what vermine to call them I know not, or wormes or flies or what worse? (…) they do not seek honie with the bee, but suck poison with the spider. (…) As for me, for it is I, and I am an Englishman in italiane;
I know They have a knife at command to cut my throate “Un Inglese Italianato è un Diavolo incarnato” John Florio, To the Reader, Second Frutes
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“The Shakespearian oeuvre is that of an authentic, highly cultivated professional, who must have spent his life studying languages and teaching, a professional with all the characteristics of the linguist John Florio.“ L. Tassinari
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John Florio
The Man Who Was Shakespeare
by Lamberto Tassinari
Giano Books
388 pages
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This first full length English edition, now out of print, will be reprinted in due
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| A paperback version of the book will soon be published with the essential, compelling themes of the first edition as well as new, unsuspected names and stories to the Shakespearian puzzle: Miguel de Cervantes and his
Quixote. |
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