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"according to our custom": Milton's Papal Attacks and Their Italian Sources

"according to our custom": Milton's Papal Attacks and Their Italian Sources David Boocker On April 21, 1647, Milton wrote to Carlo Dati, one of a number of Italian intellectuals he had met in Florence. Coming just over a year after the publication of his Poems (1645), Milton's letter includes a promise to Dati (a response to his "wish") to send "that part of the poems which is in Latin," along with an explanation as to why he had not sent the poems earlier: ... I should have sent it of my own accord long since, had I not suspected that they would be unpleasing to your ears because of those words spoken rather sharply on some pages against the Roman Pope. Now I beg you to obtain from my other friends (for of you I am certain) that same indulgence to freedom which, as you know, you have been used to granting in the past with singular kindness--I do not mean to your Dante and Petrarch in this case, but to me; I crave it now whenever mention be made of your religion according to our custom. (2: 764)1 This explanation IS Important to our understanding of Milton's anti-papal sentiments. In such poems as the "In Proditionem Bombardicam" group http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

"according to our custom": Milton's Papal Attacks and Their Italian Sources

Boocker, David
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 20 (1): 19 – Dec 2, 1994
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© Copyright 1994 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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David Boocker On April 21, 1647, Milton wrote to Carlo Dati, one of a number of Italian intellectuals he had met in Florence. Coming just over a year after the publication of his Poems (1645), Milton's letter includes a promise to Dati (a response to his "wish") to send "that part of the poems which is in Latin," along with an explanation as to why he had not sent the poems earlier: ... I should have sent it of my own accord long since, had I not suspected that they would be unpleasing to your ears because of those words spoken rather sharply on some pages against the Roman Pope. Now I beg you to obtain from my other friends (for of you I am certain) that same indulgence to freedom which, as you know, you have been used to granting in the past with singular kindness--I do not mean to your Dante and Petrarch in this case, but to me; I crave it now whenever mention be made of your religion according to our custom. (2: 764)1 This explanation IS Important to our understanding of Milton's anti-papal sentiments. In such poems as the "In Proditionem Bombardicam" group

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