Trevor McDonald's Anthology

THE story is told that in 1638, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, councillor to Pope Urban VIII and the most powerful man in Rome, waited for a guest at the door of his palace. The guest was a Protestant, John Milton, then only 30 years old but already acclaimed as a scholar, assured of his calling as a...

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Published inDaily telegraph (London, England : 1969)
Main Author McDonald, Trevor
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Daily Telegraph 08.07.2002
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McDonald, Trevor
Milton, John
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Summary:THE story is told that in 1638, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, councillor to Pope Urban VIII and the most powerful man in Rome, waited for a guest at the door of his palace. The guest was a Protestant, John Milton, then only 30 years old but already acclaimed as a scholar, assured of his calling as a poet and capable of writing with equal grace in Latin, Italian and English. Milton is known, of course, for his monumental Paradise Lost, but in 1631, he wrote a charming pair of poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso invoking Mirth and Melancholy, making each sound the more attractive choice...
ISSN:0307-1235