John Florio

English linguist and lexicographer

Giovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in England.

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  • Since honour from the honourer proceeds,
      How well do they deserve that memorize
      And leave in Books, for all posterities
    The names of worthies and their virtuous deeds:
    When all their glory else, like water-weeds
      Without their element, presèntly dies,
      And all their greatness quite forgotten lies,
    And when and how they flourished no man heeds!
    How poor remembrances are statues, tombs,
      And other monuments that men erect
    To princes, which remain in closèd rooms
      Where but a few behold them, in respect
        Of Books, that to the universal eye
        Show how they lived; the other where they lie!
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