Giovanni Florio (1552–1625), known as John Florio, was a linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important humanist in Renaissance England. John Florio contributed to the English language with 1,149 words, placing third after Chaucer (with 2,012 words) and Shakespeare (with 1,969 words), in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky.