(1553?-1625) Translator, son of an Italian preacher, exiled for his Protestantism, but who appears to have lost credit owing to misconduct, born in London, was, about 1576, a private tutor of languages at Oxford. n 1581 he was admitted a member of Magdalen College, and teacher of French and Italian. Patronised by various noblemen, he became in 1603 reader in Italian to Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I. He puborn First Fruites (1578). Second Fruites (1591), consisting of Italian and English Dialogues, and his great Italian dictionary entitled A World of Wonder, in 1598. His chief contribution to pure literature is his famous translation of The Essays of Montaigne, in stately if somewhat stiff Elizabethan English.