John Florio, Queen Anna's New World of Words (1611)
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Date
1611
Lexicographer
John Florio Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
A most copious and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English.
Book title
Queen Anna's New World of Words, Or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues, Collected, and newly much augmented by Iohn Florio, Reader of the Italian vnto the Soueraigne Maiestie of Anna, crowned Queene of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c. And one of the Gentlemen of hir Royall Priuie Chamber. Whereunto are added certaine necessarie rules and short obseruations for the Italian tongue
Edition
second
Publication place
London
Printer
Melch. Bradwood
Publisher
Edw. Blount and William Barret
Transcription source
Perseus Project: scanned transcription of dictionary only (not introductory material or grammar), partly encoded, programmatically transformed in some respects, largely unproofread and corrected. Copy unidentified, but proofread at LEME against EEBO images of the Huntington copy.
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- Italian
- proverbs
Language
headwords: Italian
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
617
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 21
number: 21
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 70908
sample: Pusula, a little bladder rising on bread when it is baked. Also a disease rising of hot cholericke bloud, and which beginneth with a blister, and groweth to a sore or scabbe like a tetter, called saint Anthonies fire.
number: 70908
sample: Pusula, a little bladder rising on bread when it is baked. Also a disease rising of hot cholericke bloud, and which beginneth with a blister, and groweth to a sore or scabbe like a tetter, called saint Anthonies fire.
Alston
XII.i.113
STC
11099
Catalog
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. 2771. view record
Other editions
1659: Wing F1368 (Vocabulario Italiano e Inglese, with a new English-Italian part, rev. Giovanni Torriano; Alston XII.114);
1688: Wing F1369 (Alston XII.115);
1690: Wing F13669a (Alston XII.116)
1688: Wing F1369 (Alston XII.115);
1690: Wing F13669a (Alston XII.116)
Facsimiles
Florio, John. Queen Anna's New World of Words. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 105. Menston: Scolar Press, 1968. 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
Huffman, Clifford Chalmers. "Gabriel Harvey on John Florio and John Eliot." New series. Notes & Queries 22.7 (1975 July): 300-02. view record
Chambrun, Longworth. Giovanni Florio, un apôtre de la Renaissance en Angleterre à l'époque de Shakespeare. Paris: n.p., 1921. view record
O'Connor, D. J. "John Florio's Contribution to Italian-English Lexicography." Italica 49 (1972): 49-67. view record
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
Huffman, Clifford Chalmers. "Gabriel Harvey on John Florio and John Eliot." New series. Notes & Queries 22.7 (1975 July): 300-02. view record
Chambrun, Longworth. Giovanni Florio, un apôtre de la Renaissance en Angleterre à l'époque de Shakespeare. Paris: n.p., 1921. view record
O'Connor, D. J. "John Florio's Contribution to Italian-English Lexicography." Italica 49 (1972): 49-67. view record
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
