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"Italy as it appears in Shakespeare’s theatre is precisely matched by the lives and works of John Florio and his father Michel Angelo, where Italy appears for what it is: the land, the folk, and the language that have been lost."

L. Tassinari

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Don Quichotte et Hamlet : même auteur ?
Hommage dialogué à Shakespeare et Cervantes

Mardi 23 avril 2013, 19h30 - Dans le cadre de la Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d’auteur, une soirée-conférence toute spéciale se tiendra en direct du Petit Outremont.

Lamberto Tassinari, écrivain et chercheur, vient raconter à son interlocuteur Michel Vaïs de la revue Jeu, ses découvertes sur les œuvres de Shakespeare et de Cervantes. Selon ses recherches, un intellectuel juif italien, résidant en Angleterre, John Florio, serait probablement l’auteur caché derrière le Don Quichotte de l’un et de toutes les œuvres dramaturgiques et poétiques de l’autre. Amateurs de littérature, de théâtre et passionnés d’impostures : soyez au rendez-vous pour cet évènement unique qui vous choquera! Raymond Cloutier agira à titre de lecteur lors de cette soirée spéciale.

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The quest for Shakespeare
Young people’s craving for new perspectives and truth.

On October 29, 2012 I was invited to present a lecture on John Florio as Shakespeare by professor Lucia Dolcetti who teaches a course on Italian culture at the University of Ottawa. My conviction that students are generally open to innovative and audacious ideas was powerfully confirmed by this experience. The class composed of undergraduate and graduate students, was invited by their teacher to comment on my presentation. The thirty-one short papers produced, illustrate students’ readiness to radically challenge the monotone, inconclusive, traditional mantra of the illiterate genius of Stratford.

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The Shakespeare's Authorship Question
April 7, 2012

I will take part in a one-day conference on the Shakespeare Authorship Question organized and chaired by Professor Don Rubin of the Department of Theatre, York University, from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., April 7, 2012 at York University, Toronto.

The other panelists are: Mark Anderson, author of Shakespeare By Another Name, keynote speaker; Keir Cutler, presenting "Is Shakespeare Dead?"; David Prosser, Director of Communications at Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Christopher Innes of York University Department of English; Michel Vaïs, author and theatre critic.

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Discussion publique de la revue Jeu en collaboration avec le Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal
Samedi 14 janvier 2012, 14h00

Le cas Shakespeare : l'homme sous l'œuvre - Communiqué de presse


CRITICAL STAGES/SCÈNES CRITIQUES No 5, December 2011- webjournal of the IATC (International Association of Theatre Critics) published John Florio: The case for Shakespeare as Exile by Lamberto Tassinari

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Excerpts of John Florio The Man Who Was Shakespeare published in The Oxfordian-Volume 13-October 2011

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Sono Lamberto Tassinari e vi spiego perché Shakespeare è in realtà John Florio

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Conférence de Lamberto Tassinari - Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-de-Koninck, local 3244 - Département de langues, linguistique et traduction
Mercredi 29 septembre 2010, 10h30

Traduction et paternité littéraire - de Shakespeare à Florio, en passant par Montaigne et Cervantes. Le traducteur, lexicographe et linguiste élisabethain John Florio est le protagoniste oublié de la Renaissance anglaise. L'étude de son œuvre - des manuels pour l'apprentissage de l'italien, des dictionnaires et des traductions - et de sa profonde implication dans celle de Shakespeare est la clé qui permet la transformation radicale de notre conception de début de la modernité et de notre interprétation de la fabrication des littératures nationales.


Conference of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies, Concordia University, Montreal
May 28-30 2010

I will participate with a paper on John Florio as Shakespeare in the Session: Seventeenth-Century Pioneers of Modern Though. Friday 28th.


The Canadian Tulip Festival - Celebr'idée Series, Ottawa
Saturday May 15th 2010, 4 pm to 6pm


Blue Metropolis Literary Festival
Montreal, April 21-25 2010

I will present and discuss my book “John Florio The Man Who Was Shakespeare” with Globe and Mail journalist and author Michael Posner, Sunday April 25 at 1:00 PM.


Apiq presents: “Shakespeare? E’ il nome d’arte di John Florio”
December 11, 2009

Associazione dei Professori di Italiano del Quebec presents a series of conferences. “Shakespeare? E’ il nome d’arte di John Florio” Intervista a Lamberto Tassinari di Maria Predelli, McGill University.

Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:30pm
Piccolo Teatro del Centro Leonardo Da Vinci
8370 boulevard Lacordaire,
Saint-Leonard, QC H1R 3Y6
514-955-8370


Conference on Shakespeare's Authorship
April 16 to 19, 2009

I will be participating in the 13th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies 2009 Conference at Concordia University of Portland (Oregon) to be held from April 16 to 19. I will present a paper entitled "Shakespeare's Poetry in Florio's Words".


John Florio and the Italian contribution to English Renaissance, Lecture by Lamberto Tassinari
February 05, 2009

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present the lecture John Florio and the Italian contribution to English Renaissance by Lamberto Tassinari, on the influence of Italian literary works on the English Renaissance from Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio.

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 6:30 pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 496 Huron St., Toronto
5 Febbraio 2009

L'Istituto Italiano di Cultura è lieto di presentare la conferenza John Florio and the Italian contribution to English Renaissance di Lamberto Tassinari, sull'influenza delle opere letterarie italiane sulle opere del Rinascimento inglese, da Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio a Giordano Bruno. La conferenza si concentrerà in modo specifico sulla famiglia Florio, padre e figlio, apostoli del Rinascimento inglese dal 1550 al 1620: insegnanti di lingua, traduttori, scrittori.

Giovedì 5 febbraio 2009 - 18,30
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 496 Huron St., Toronto
Ingresso gratuito



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John Florio
The Man Who Was Shakespeare
by Lamberto Tassinari
Giano Books
388 pages
$ 20.00


This first full length English edition, now out of print, will be reprinted in due time.

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.

Check site regularly for updates.