TONIGHT! Peter Platt on Florio and "Shakespeare's Montaigne"

[The Center for Translation Studies]

Conversation and book signing tonight at the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College:

"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 Florio’s 1603 translation of Montaigne’s Essays, please join us for an evening with 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 - 6:30 PM - James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College (Broadway and 117th, New York City)

Free and open to the public - please don't hesitate to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested.

A book signing will follow the discussion, with books for sale on site courtesy of Book Culture.

Information: barnard.edu/translation/florio

Organized by The Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College and the New York Review of Books, with the participation of the Department of English and the Department of French, Barnard College.

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