| Authorship Notes |
Florios 'Second Frutes' is an Italian manual containing dialogues given in Italian and English on facing pages. It also contains a collection of 6000 Italian proverbs. Amongst both the dialogues and proverbs are several which relate to travel or have an Apodemic character. For example the following excerpt from a dialogue: ''And if you will be a traveller, and wander safely through the world: wheresoever you come, have alwayes the eies of Faulcon, that ye may see farre, the eares of an Asses, that ye may heere wel, the face of an Ape, that ye may be readie to laugh, the mouth of a Hog, to eat all things, the shoulder of a Camell, that you may beare any thing with patience, the legges of a Stagge, to flie from dangers: and see that you never want for two bagges very full, that is one of pacience, for with it a man overcomes all things: and another of money, for they that have good store of crownes, Are called Lords though they be clownes", John Florio, 'Second Frutes' (1591), p. 93. The 'Second Frutes' was a follow on from Florio's popular Italian phrasebook, dialogue manual, and grammar 'Florio his Firste Fruites'. |
