John Florio

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John Florio

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Linguistics

#1643

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Why Is John Florio Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Giovanni Florio , 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 and Shakespeare , in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky.

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