John Florio vs Jerry Norman

John Florio, also known as Giovanni Florio, was a 16th-century English linguist, translator, and lexicographer of Italian descent. He is best known for his 1598 Italian-English dictionary, "A World of Words," which significantly expanded English speakers' access to the Italian language and its vocabulary. In 1603, he published a renowned English translation of Michel de Montaigne's philosophical e...

Jerry Norman was an American linguist and sinologist whose scholarship concentrated on Chinese historical linguistics, Chinese dialects, and the Manchu language. He conducted influential research on Min Chinese and contributed to the reconstruction and classification of Chinese varieties, while his book Chinese became a widely used scholarly introduction to the language family and its history. Nor...