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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Florio is the 115th most popular linguist (down from 113th in 2019), the 2,959th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,690th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, John Florio ranks 115 out of 214. Before him are Kunio Yanagita, Albert Sechehaye, Stephen Krashen, Nakahama Manjirō, John Chadwick, and Milena Hübschmannová. After him are George Abraham Grierson, Eugen Wüster, George Kingsley Zipf, Arnold Chikobava, Louis Duchesne, and Yevgeny Polivanov.

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Among people born in 1553, John Florio ranks 11. Before him are Archduke Ernest of Austria, Luca Marenzio, Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé, Prospero Alpini, and Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma. After him are Vitsentzos Kornaros, Nicolò Contarini, and Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Among people deceased in 1625, John Florio ranks 22. Before him are John Fletcher, Anna Vasa of Sweden, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Enno III, Count of East Frisia, Hans Rottenhammer, and Ubbo Emmius. After him is Thomas Lodge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Florio ranks 2,960 out of 8,785. Before him are Alfred Deller (1912), Biff Byford (1951), FKA Twigs (1988), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), and Anthony Hope (1863). After him are William Astbury (1898), Rita Tushingham (1942), Thomas Arnold (1795), James B. Francis (1815), Richard Swinburne (1934), and Stafford Beer (1926).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, John Florio ranks 8. Before him are Michael Halliday (1925), Robert Morrison (1782), Henry Watson Fowler (1858), Daniel Jones (1881), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), and John Chadwick (1920). After him are James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), Henry Sweet (1845), Henry Liddell (1811), and Oswald Szemerényi (1913).

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