Lorenzo Franciosini di Castelfiorentino (*

Castelfiorentino Castelfiorentino is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, central-northern Italy, located between Florence (distance 30 km), Pisa (45 km) and Siena (55 km). The population numbers approxi ...

, ca. 1600 - † after 1645) was an Italian Hispanist,

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and grammarian from the 16th century. He wrote an excellent ''Vocabolario italiano, e spagnolo'' (

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, 1620), a ''Grammatica spagnuola ed italiana'' (

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, 1624), and some works in

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: ''De particulis Italicae orationis ��' (

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, 1637), ''Fax linguae Italicae'' (Florence, 1638); ''Compendium facis linguae Italicae'' (1667). He is author of the ''Rodamontate o bravate spagnole'' (Venice, 1627), the ''Dialoghi piacevoli'' (Venice, 1626), and of an important translation of ''

Don Quixote , the full title being ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'', is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the novel is considered a founding work of Western literature and is of ...

'', the first one in Italian: ''L’ingegnoso cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancia'' (Venice, 1622, 1st part; 1625, 2nd part, 1625). « Navarrete says it is too much given to

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, and it certainly takes liberties, but it is on the whole a fairly close translation. The verse is given in the original Spanish »The first edition of ''Don Quixote'' to be published in Italy was the Milanese edition in Spanish of 1610 by the heirs of Pedromartir Locarni and Juan Bautista Bidello. A translation into Italian was not published until this edition, twelve years later. The first part was dedicated to

Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de' Medici (14 July 1610 – 23 May 1670) was Grand Duchy of Tuscany, grand duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest son of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo II de' Medici and Archduchess Maria Mad ...

, while the second part, published three years later, was dedicated to Ferdinando Seracinelli. In the second part, the verse is also translated into Italian by Alessandro Adimari.

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* People from Castelfiorentino Italian Hispanists Italian lexicographers Grammarians from Italy Linguists of Spanish 17th-century Italian translators Spanish–Italian translators Year of birth uncertain 17th-century deaths Cervantists {{Italy-translator-stub