(ca. 1553-1625)
English author and teacher, best known for his Italian-English dictionary, A World of Words (1598) and for his translations, notably the essays of Michel de Montaigne. He was born in London to a family of refugee Italian Protestants and developed connections with the literary circle of Sir Philip Sidney. After teaching at Oxford, he became tutor in Italian to the wife of King James I, Anne of Denmark, and also to the elder son of the king and queen, Henry, prince of Wales.
Historical Dictionary of Renaissance. Charles G. Nauert. 2004.