Florio
JOHN, an English lexicog- 000 a year for current expenses. In 1919 there were 43 instructors and 988 students. President, A. A. Murphree, LL.D. Fruits, which yield Familiar Speech, two years later published his "First languages at Oxford about 1576, and appears as a private tutor in foreign rapher, and the translator of Montaigne; born in London, England, about 1553. His father was a Protestant exile and Italian preacher in London. Florio appears as a private tutor in foreign languages at Oxford about 1576, and two years later published his "First Fruits, which yield Familiar Speech, Golden Sayings," accompanied by Proverbs, Witty Sentences and Perfect Induction to the Italian and Southampton, and other noble persons. successively of Leicester, the Earl of admitted a member of Magdalen College, and became a teacher of French and Italian. He enjoyed the patronage successively of Leicester, the Earl of Southampton, and other noble persons.
His next work was "Second Fruits, to His Italian and English dictionary, enbut delightsome Tastes to the the Tongues of Italian and English men," with, annexed to it, the "Garden of Recreation," yielding 6,000 Italian proverbs (1591).
His Italian and English dictionary, en- In 1603 he published in folio his famous lished in 1598. Florio was appointed ne, and reader in Italian to Queen Anne, afterward of the privy chamber.
In 1603 he published in folio his famous translation of Montaigne. It was long believed that the pedantic Holofernes in Love's Labor's Lost" was a study after Florio. He died in Fulham, in 1625.
FLOTOW ADOLPHUS VON, a German composer; born (flōtō), FRIEDRICH Schwerin, Germany, April 26, 1812. He in studied music in Paris, but his earlier Teutendorf, Mecklenburgoperas did not find favor with the Parisian opera house directors, so he had to content himself with performances in the aristocratic private the length "Medusa's Shipwreck" was successfully produced at the Renaissance Theater in 1839. This was followed by theaters. At Soul in Pain" (1846), performed in Lon- "Camoen's Slave" (1843) and "The Theater in 1839. This was followed by cessfully produced at the Renaissance length "Medusa's Shipwreck" was suc- Soul in Pain" (1846), performed in London as "Leoline." "Alexander Stradella" was first performed at Hamburg in don as "Leoline." "Alexander Stradella" 1844, and his most successful work, "Martha," at Vienna in 1847. Among his other works are: "Indra" (1853); "Martha," at Vienna in 1847. Among "The Phantom" (1869); and "The Enchantress" (1878). He was director of the court theater at Schwerin in 1855- 1863; the last years of his life were chiefly spent at Vienna. He died in Darmstadt, Germany, Jan. 23, 1883.