John Florio, A World of Words (1598)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1598
Lexicographer
John Florio Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A Worlde of Wordes, Or Most copious, and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English
Publication place
London
Printer
Arnold Hatfield
Publisher
Edward Blount
Transcription source
Scolar Press facsimile (British Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
  • Italian
  • proverbs
Language
headwords: Italian
explanations: English
explanations: English
Abbauare, to slauer or driuell at the mouth as children do.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 43517
Alston
XII.i.112
STC
11098
Catalog
Scott, Mary Augusta. Elizabethan Translations from the Italian. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 352-55. view record
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 2766. view record
Other editions
Wellcome MS. 276 (Moorat 1962-1973, I.173): "An explanation of some astronomical and astrological words" out of Florio (mid-17th-cent);
see also LEME 299
Facsimiles
Florio, John. A Worlde of Wordes (1598). Anglistica & Americana 114. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1972. 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
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Chambrun, Longworth. Giovanni Florio, un apôtre de la Renaissance en Angleterre à l'époque de Shakespeare. Paris: n.p., 1921. view record
Frantz, David O. "Florio's Use of Contemporary Italian Literature in A Worlde of Wordes." Dictionaries 1 (1979): 47-56. view record
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Gilbert, Allan H. "Neviaanus, Ariosto, Florio, Harington, and Drummond." Modern Language Notes 62.2 (1947): 129-30. view record
O'Connor, D. J. "John Florio's Contribution to Italian-English Lexicography." Italica 49 (1972): 49-67. view record
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Re, Arundell del. "References to Florio in the Irish State Papers." Review of English Studies 12, alt. no. 46 (1936): 194-97. view record
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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
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