“From Translation All Science Had Its Offspring” The Florio Translation of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne

On the occasion of the publication of Shakespeare’s Montaigne (NYRB, 2014), a modernized and annotated edition of John Florios’s1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essays, please join us on April 28, 2014 for an evening with the book’s co-editor Peter Platt (Department of English, Barnard College) in conversation with Phillip John Usher (Department of French, Barnard College).

Monday, April 28, 2014 – 6:30pm – James Room, Barnard Hall – Free and open to the public. For more information please visit: http://barnard.edu/translation/florio