⁂ Boccaccio has repeated the tale in his _Decameron_, x. 5 (1352), in which Flores is called “Ansaldo,” and Blanchefleur “Diano´ra.” Flores and Blanchefleur, before Boccaccio’s time, were noted lovers, and are mentioned as early as 1288 by Matfre Ermengaud de Beziers, in his _Breviaire d’Amour_. Chaucer has taken the same story as the basis of the _Frankeleine’s Tale_, and Bojardo has introduced it as an episode in his _Orlando Innamorato_, where the lover is “Prasildo” and the lady “Tisbina.” (See PRASILDO.) The chroniclers of Charlemagne, Of Merlin, and the Mort d’Arthure, Mingled together in his brain, With tale of Flores and Blanchefleur. Longfellow. =Flores´ki= (_Count_), a Pole, in love with Princess Lodois´ka (4 _syl._). At the opening of the play he is travelling with his servant Verbel to discover where the princess has been placed by her father during the war. He falls in with the Tartar chief Kera Khan, whom he overpowers in fight, but spares his life, and thus makes him his friend. Floreski finds the princess in the castle of Baron Lovinski, who keeps her a virtual prisoner, but the castle being stormed by the Tartars the baron is slain, and the princess marries the count.—J.P. Kemble, _Lodoiska_. =Flo´rez=, son of Gerrard, king of the beggars. He assumes the name of Goswin, and becomes, in Bruges, a wealthy merchant. His mistress is Bertha, the supposed daughter of Vandunke the burgomaster.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Beggars’ Bush_ (1622). =Flor´ian=, the “foundling of the forest,” discovered in infancy by the Count De Valmont, and adopted as his own son. Florian is light-hearted and volatile, but with deep affection, very brave, and the delight of all who know him. He is betrothed to his cousin, Lady Geraldine, a ward of Count De Valmont.—W. Dimond, _The Foundling of the Forest_. =Florida= (_Vervain_), American girl with her mother in Venice. She takes Italian lessons from Don Ippolito, a young priest, who has mistaken his calling. The girl’s pity for him and her desire to see him freed from a false position and in a different profession in America are misunderstood by her lover, Henry Ferris. Separation and sorrow ensue. Ippolito’s death-bed confession to Ferris clears up the mystery. “If it is a little shocking, it is nevertheless true, and true to human nature that they spoke of Don Ippolito as if he were a part of their love.”—W.D. Howells, _A Foregone Conclusion_, (1874).