John Florio's Italian & English Sonnets

This books aims to demonstrate that John Florio famous translator teacher and lexicographer was also a wizard in poetry involved in the production of sonnets. Like an acrobat of words jumping from the Italian Petrarchan sonnet to the English iambic pentameter this book unveils a new extraordinary side of Florio's multifaceted personality a hint that his career as tutor linguist and translator was only a fragment of a much intriguing gifted genius the world needs to recognise.