From “Academia” to “Amicitia”

Chapters: (1) Milton & the Accademia degli Svogliati; (2) Milton & the Accademia degli Apatisti; (3) Florentine “Written Encomiums”: Antonion Francini, & Carlo Dati; (4) Patterns of “Amicitia”: The Milton/Dati Correspondence: (i) Reconstructing a Lost Dati Epistle to Milton; (ii) The Dati Epistles of 1647-1648; (iii) A Paradise Regained?: Francesco, Rovai, Gabriello Chiabrera, & Dati’s “Consolatio” to Milton; (5) Milton & the Accademia dei Fantastici: (i) Giovanni Salzilli’s “Written Encomium”; & (ii) Milton’s “Ad Salsillum”; (6) “Voice & Verse”: Leonora Baroni, Milton, & Italian “Accademici”; (7) Milton & the Accademia degli Oziosi; (8) From “Angel” to “Angle”: Manso & Milton; (9) “Mansus” & Italian Encomia of Manso; (10) “Mansueti...Chironis”: Manso, the Tame Centaur; (11) Milton, Ariosto, & the Singing Swan; & (12) “Amicitia” & Biography. Appendix: Milton’s Latin Poems of the Italian Journey. Biblo.