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John Florio — lexicographer, raconteur, and supposed model for Shakespeare’s schoolmaster Holofernes, in Love’s Labour’s Lost — was born in London in 1553 to an unidentified Englishwoman and an Italian Protestant who’d…
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John Banville on Raymond Chandler, literary inhabitation, and the stylish prose of dishwasher instruction manuals
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