How poor remembrances are statues, tombs, And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closèd rooms Where but a few behold them, in respect Of Books, that to the universal eye Show how they lived; the other where they lie!
John Florio
English linguist and lexicographer
3 pieces
- Lived
- 1553–1625
- Born
- London
- Died
- London
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Known as
- writer, translator, linguist, scholar
- Era
- Renaissance
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