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+------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note | | | | Throughout the Dictionary two different forms of the | | letters E and O are used, to represent the different | | sounds they can have in Italian. The close E is displayed | | in its normal form (E — e), the open E with a special | | character the author had made for this very purpose: it | | has here been rendered with Ẻ — ẻ. The close O has an oval | | shape, and has been represented in this text version with | | [O] [o], while the open O has its normal appearance. | +------------------------------------------------------------+
Collected, and newly much augmented by IOHN FLORIO,
Reader of the Italian vnto the Soueraigne _Maiestie of_ ANNA,
Crowned Queene of _England_, _Scotland_, _France_ and _Ireland_, &c.
_And one of the Gentlemen of hir Royall Priuie_ Chamber.
Whereunto are added certaine necessarie _rules and short obseruations for the_ Italian tongue.
LONDON, Printed by _Melch. Bradwood_, for _Edw. Blount_ and _William Barret_. ANNO 1611.
ALL' ECCELSA ET GLORIOSISSIMA Maestà di ANNA, Serenissima REGINA _d'Inghilterra, di Scótia, di Fráncia, & d'Irlánda_:
GIOVANNI FLORIO, súo hum.^mo seruitóre bráma, & augúra il cólmo & godimento d'ógni vera & _compíta felicità_.
In sù l'altáre della túa Eccélsa & Sere.^ma MAESTA, (al quále ógni nóstro ginócchio douerebbe inchinársi) che le túe innáte & Reáli virtù (Gloriosíssima REGINA) s'hánno erétto nél sácro Témpio d'Honóre (che ógni cuóre conuerebbe adoráre sénza idolatría) Io con ógni humiltà & riuerenza dedico & consácro quésto húmile vóto, & cón le ginócchia délla ménte inchíne ALLA TVA GRANDEZZA DALL'ECCELSO, báscio le Realíssime mani, volendo víuere & moríre
_Di túa Gloriosíssima & Sublime Maestà hum.^mo ossequen.^mo & inuiolabile súddito & seruitóre_
_TO THE IMPERIALL MAIESTIE_ of the Highest-borne Princes, ANNA of _Denmarke_, by God's permission, Crowned QVEENE of _England_, _Scotland_, _France_ & _Ireland_, &c.
Hir humblest seruant I. F. wisheth all the true felicities, that this _world may affoord, and the fullest fruition of the blessednesse_ that heauen can yeeld.