John Florio, the man who was Shakespeare



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“As for me, for it is I, and I am an Englishman in Italiane”

John Florio, Second Frutes, To the Reader.

>> Fifteen Reasons
for John Florio,
The Man Who Invented Shakespeare

>> Quindici Ragioni
per John Florio,
L’uomo che ha
inventato Shakespeare

>> Florio As Seen By Scholars : 1921-2007

>> Author matters

>> In pursuit of meaning

>> A world of words

>> Words

>> Chapter 7: (excerpt)
The Translation of Montaigne’s Essais

>> Chapter 8: (excerpt)
Language, Style,
And Euphuism

>> Chapter 17: (excerpt)
The Spirit and The Land
of Italy

>> L’Italia e Florio

>> John Florio
and His Entourage

>> The Testament
of John Florio

>> Florio’s works

Florio - Shakespeare
John Florio, in pursuit of meaning

John Florio is a much more “logical” Shakespeare than Oxford, Bacon, Queen Elizabeth or Mary Sidney, .all wishful thinking candidates as “the man from Stratford”. An impartial historical analysis would have revealed that John Florio, the “apostle of the Renaissance” in England, appeared to have played a huge role in the making of Shakespeare, more importamt than academia ever imagined. If one considers the quantity and quality of material Shakespeare borrowed from Florio’s works (and of life I am tempted to say!) one is obliged to conclude that the poet had an immense debt towards Florio. Why have scholars shown such little interest in the only writer and linguist of Italian origin, a major participant within literary and social activities and in the Italianate context of Elizabethan and Jacobean times? The compelling arguments contesting Stratford, are infinitely more convincing when considering John Florio’s candidacy. In fact, Shakespeare’s values and “ideology” do not fully match those of the Earls and Sirs of pure English ancestry. In Shakespeare’s works, lays the foreigner, the exile, the Jew. In sum, the European who knew another world and whose father was the catholic/protestant preacher-writer Michel Angelo Florio and not the illiterate glove maker father from the country side. . A highly religious, literate and erudite father with an adventurous European and Jewish past corresponds to the nature of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets: a universal human experience profoundly linked to the cultures and languages of Europe.

Truth always appears obvious once it is discovered,! No one saw Florio, because all looked towards the revealed truth of Stratford, whose prophet was Ben Jonson, or towards the noble, pure breed writers and playwrights of that time. John Florio can be seen as the “theory of everything” of the Shakespearian Universe. All the questions critics have been asking for the past two centuries are beautifully answered by John Florio’s life and oeuvre.

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His Entourage

An overview, yet incomplete, of the dense web of relationships linking John Florio with the royal family, influential circles at court, members of the high aristocracy, and the world of culture and letters. Readers are invited to establish the points of contact with the Shakespeare legend for themselves.
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	John Florio The Man Who Was Shakespeare by Lamberto Tassinari Giano Books 388 pages $ 20.00
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