LINGUIST

John Florio

1553 - 1625

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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. Florio contributed 1,149 words to the English language, placing third after Chaucer (with 2,012 words) and Shakespeare (with 1,969 words), in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky. Florio was the first translator of Montaigne into English, possibly the first translator of Boccaccio into English and he wrote the first comprehensive Italian–English dictionary (surpassing the only previous modest Italian–English dictionary by William Thomas published in 1550). Playwright and poet Ben Jonson was a personal friend, and Jonson hailed Florio as "loving father" and "ayde of his muses". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Florio has received more than 177,699 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Florio is the 113th most popular linguist (up from 119th in 2019), the 2,690th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,755th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Linguist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.25

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Florio ranks 113 out of 214. Before him are Daniel Jones, Heinrich Hübschmann, Nakahama Manjirō, Georg Curtius, Kunio Yanagita, and Renato Corsetti. After him are August Friedrich Pott, Jules Gilliéron, Hans Ørberg, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Morris Halle, and Hrachia Acharian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1553, John Florio ranks 12. Before him are Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Luca Marenzio, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Prospero Alpini, and Nicolò Contarini. After him are Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Vitsentzos Kornaros. Among people deceased in 1625, John Florio ranks 22. Before him are Hans Rottenhammer, John Fletcher, Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Ubbo Emmius, and Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. After him is Thomas Lodge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Florio ranks 2,690 out of 8,785. Before him are Johnny Haynes (1934), Iain Banks (1954), Biff Byford (1951), William Knox D'Arcy (1849), Venetia Burney (1918), and Arthur Brown (1942). After him are Glen Matlock (1956), Jack Taylor (1930), Israel Zangwill (1864), Ron Atkinson (1939), Paul Davies (1946), and Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (1871).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Florio ranks 6. Before him are William Jones (1746), Robert Morrison (1782), John Chadwick (1920), Michael Halliday (1925), and Daniel Jones (1881). After him are James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), John Lyons (1932), Henry Liddell (1811), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), and John Rupert Firth (1890).

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