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Lorenzo Franciosini

Lorenzo Franciosini di Castelfiorentino ( in Castelfiorentinoafter 1645) was an Italian Hispanist, translator, lexicographer and grammarian.

He wrote an important ''Vocabolario italiano, e spagnolo'' (Italian–Spanish Dictionary; Rome, 1620), a ''Grammatica spagnuola ed italiana'' (Italian–Spanish Grammar; Venice, 1624), and some works in Latin: ''De particulis Italicae orationis […]'' (Florence, 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 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 paraphrase, and it certainly takes liberties, but it is on the whole a fairly close translation. The verse is given in the original Spanish." Provided by Wikipedia