{"product_id":"shakespeares-montaigne-paperback-by-michel-de-montaigne-translated-by-john-florio-edited-by-stephen-greenblatt-introduction-by-peter-g-platt","title":"Shakespeare's Montaigne Paperback by Michel de Montaigne; Translated by John Florio; Edited by Stephen Greenblatt; Introduction by Peter G. 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And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlorio’s Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton’s \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne’s and Shakespeare’s visions of the world, and Platt’s introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel de Montaigne\u003c\/b\u003e (1533–1592) was born in Aquitaine, not  far from Bordeaux, in the château of his wealthy aristocratic family.  Educated by his father in Latin and Greek from an early age, Montaigne  attended boarding school in Bordeaux before studying law in Toulouse. He  then embarked on a distinguished public career, serving as a counselor  of court in Périgueux and Bordeaux, becoming a courtier to Charles the  IX, and receiving the collar of the Order of Saint Michael. After the  death of his father in 1568, Montaigne succeeded to the title of Lord of  Montaigne, and in 1571 he retired from public life in order to devote  himself to reading and writing, publishing the first two volumes of his  essays in 1580 and a third in 1588. From 1581 to 1585, he was the  elected mayor of Bordeaux, confronting ongoing strife between Catholics  and Protestants as well as an outbreak of the plague. Married to  Françoise de Cassaigne, Montaigne was the father of six daughters, only  one of whom survived into adulthood. He continued to write new essays  and to add new material to the existing ones until the end of his life.  The\u003cbr\u003ecomplete essays appeared posthumously in 1595.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Florio\u003c\/b\u003e (1553–1625) was born in London, the son of Michelangelo Florio, a  Tuscan convert to Protestantism who had moved to England because of his  religious beliefs and who served as a language tutor to several highborn  English families. Raised in Italian-speaking Switzerland and Germany,  where his father fled after the Catholic Queen Mary I came to the  English throne, John Florio returned to England during the reign of  Queen Elizabeth I and followed in his father’s footsteps as an  instructor of languages, teaching French and Italian at Magdalen  College, Oxford, and, under King James I, working as a private tutor to  the Crown Prince and the Queen Consort. Florio’s works include\u003ci\u003e First Fruits, which yield Familiar Speech, Merry Proverbs, Witty Sentences, and Golden Sayings\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Induction to the Italian and English Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSecond Fruits, to be gathered of Twelve Trees, of divers but delightsome Tastes to the Tongues of Italian and English men\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGarden of Recreation, yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs\u003c\/i\u003e; an Italian–English dictionary, \u003ci\u003eA World of Words \u003c\/i\u003e(the second edition of which was entitled \u003ci\u003eQueen Anna’s New World of Words\u003c\/i\u003e); and his celebrated translation of Montaigne’s \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, among other books, \u003ci\u003eWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Award, the James Russell Lowell Award, and  the Pulitzer Prize). He is the John Cogan University Professor of the  Humanities at Harvard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter G. Platt\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor and chair of English at Barnard College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Culture of Paradox \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and \u003ci\u003eReason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eWonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). He has written articles about Shakespeare, Renaissance poetics  and rhetoric, and John Florio. He is currently writing a book about  Shakespeare and Montaigne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45281114194081,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781590177228","price":28.45,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781590177228.jpg?v=1761672927","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/shakespeares-montaigne-paperback-by-michel-de-montaigne-translated-by-john-florio-edited-by-stephen-greenblatt-introduction-by-peter-g-platt","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}