Iohn Florio's
Old World
of Words

This braine-babe (pardon me for the homage) is a modernization of Queen Anna's New World of Words, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues, collected and compiled by John Florio and published in 1611. The dictionary contains about 75,000 definitions of Early Modern Italian words and phrases, and their Early Modern English counterparts. It still remains a fantastic resource for translators today.

This modernization is in terms of technology only. The website makes the definitions easy to search and navigate, however it leaves as much of the spelling and formatting as it was in the original sources and transcriptions. In addition, it is not intending to reproduce the entirety of Florio's dictionary; notes and the additional pages covering grammar and pronunciation are not included, so I encourage you to peruse one or all of the digital sources listed in the credits below.

Details on how I produced this modernization are available on the About page, and all source code for the site and producing the vector model and database is published on GitHub.

Credits:

• Greg Lindahl hosts images and a PDF scanned from a facsimile of Florio's dictionary at https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/.
  • Greg Lindahl further credits Steve Bush for scanning those images from the 1968 Scholar Press facsimile.
• Project Gutenberg hosts a transcription of Florio's dictionary in a variety of formats at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56200.
  • Project Gutenberg electronic works are covered by The Project Gutenberg License, available online at https://www.gutenberg.org/license.
  • Project Gutenberg credits production of their transcriptions to Greg Lindahl, Steve Bush, Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at (http://www.pgdp.net).
  • Please also consider donating to Project Gutenberg, which will support their work and allow them to obtain even more content.