Cari lettori, abbiamo il piacere di annunciarvi che la rivista Focus, nel numero di questo Marzo, ha dedicato un articolo alle ricerche condotte su Shakespeare e Florio dall'Istituto Studi Floriani di cui Corrado Panzieri, intervistato da Focus, ed io, Saul Gerevini, siamo i cofondatori.

Questo riconoscimento alle nostre ricerche ci fa sperare che nel futuro ci sia più considerazione, soprattutto in Italia, per quel grande personaggio che fu John Florio.

Le ricerche esposte nel sito www.shakespeareandflorio.net, prodotte in larga misura dall'Istituto Studi Floriani i cui soci fondatori sono Corrado Panzieri e Saul Gerevini, vertono sul fatto che John Florio e l'attore di Stratford William Shaksper hanno lavorato insieme nel produrre e nel rappresentare le opere a marchio "William Shakespeare". In questo articolo esporrò brevemente il mio punto di vista su questa collaborazione, chiarendo fin da adesso che, come vedremo, Florio era quello che scriveva i testi e Shaksper quello che li rielaborava e li metteva fisicamente in scena, come regista e attore, insieme alla sua compagnia.

Note collaborazione. (152.27 kB)

If you are familiar with the works of John Florio, his translation of Montaigne’s essays for example, it is hard to resist the notion that he and Shakespeare must have been close friends because his style, ideas and language leap from the pages of Shakespeare’s early plays in multitude. Literary evidence aside, I aim to show here that the historical record and contemporary writings confirm this relationship. Florio is the flamboyant Italian character ‘Gullio’ of the famous comedy sketch produced by Cambridge students in the early 1600s, “The News from Parnassus, Part Two” in which he cries “sweet Mr. Shakespeare, I will have his picture in my study at Court”.

John Florio Was he Shakespeares first and most important collaborator (543.23 kB)

Il famoso Globe Theatre dove venivano recitate le opere di Shakespeare.

READ IN THE "SHAKESPEARE'S FRIENDS" SECTION THE ARTICLES OF THE AUTHORS WHO PARTICIPATE AT THE PROJECT OF DEVELOPING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SHAKESPEARE'S IDENTITY. LOOK IN THE 'DOWNLOADS' SECTION FOR MORE ARTICLES.

My contribution to this website aims to demonstrate that there is considerable evidence that Shakespeare and Florio were more than passing friends.  The two became literary collaborators;

Recently I have read some works written by Prof. Stephen Greenblatt and Prof. Lamberto Tassinari in which they postulated a negative relationship between William Shaksper (the actor from Stratford thought to have written William Shakespeare's works) and John Florio, one of the most significant cultural figure of the Elizabethan age. Greenblatt reports it in the introduction of his book "Shakespeare's Montaigne" (2014), while Tassinari writes about it in "Shakespeare è il nome d'arte di John Florio" (2008). Unfortunately for them a bad relationship between Florio and Shaksper is impossible since they were close friends and collaborators.

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Open letter (812.14 kB)