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Title: The spell of Italy
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Mason, Caroline Atwater, 1853-1939
Subjects: Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and coming himself, not once only, to myinn to visit me. Fifty years before the Marquis had led Tasso aroundNaples, pointing out its beauties. Masson fanciesthe aged patrician quoting to his new charge theraptures and reflections of that earlier storm-tossed,tumultuous but ever-engaging poet. Late in December tidings reaches Milton of thebeginning of Civil War in England, and he thinksit disgraceful that, while my fellow countrymenwere fighting at home for liberty, I should be travel-ling abroad at ease for intellectual purposes. Accord-ingly he abandons his plan for \dsiting Sicily andGreece, and turns again northward. Manso, inparting, presents him with two cups of rich work-manship and with the inevitable poetic tributewhich, however, has a thrust aside at the English-mans Protestant proclivities: Joannes Baptista Mansus, Marquis of Villa, to John Milton,Englishman. Mind, form, grace, face and morals are perfect; if but thycreed were,Then not Anglic alone, truly Angelic thoudst be.
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Authors in Italy 341 Again Milton spends two months in Rome, andearly in March, 1639, he arrives in Florence for thesecond time. Vallambrosa and Fiesole become hisfavourite haunts, and excursion is made also to Lucca.Bologna and Ferrara are visited on his way to Venice,which he reaches late in April. While in Venicehe shipped to England a quantity of curious andrare books, collected during his travels, amongthem a chest or two of choice music-books ofthe best masters flourishing about that time inItaly. Verona and Milan are the last points visitedon the homeward way, and by Lake Leman he goeson to Geneva. A truly Miltonic touch of that fastidious prideof purity which breaks such a chasm betweenMilton and Goethe, is given in the sentencewith which the story of the Italian journey isclosed: I again take God to witness that in all thoseplaces where so many things are considered lawful,I lived sound and untouched from all profligacy andvice, having this thought perpetually with me, that,t

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