1st Edition
Milton's Italy Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England
Introduction: Italian Self-Fashioning 1. The Canonical Milton and the Myth of Italy: Problems of Fact and Interpretation 2. Beyond the Alps: Milton’s Anglo-Italian Journey and its Contexts 3. Qualifying Milton’s Anti-Catholicism: the Proto-Protestant Reformers, Trent, and Beyond 4. Amazing Grace: Milton’s Mediation of Reformed and Roman Catholic Doctrine 5. The Republic of Letters and Furores of Inspiration: Neoplatonism in Milton’s Early Latin and English Verse 6. Disarming Grace: The Legacy of Beatrice and Laura 7. The Italian Context of Milton’s Neo-Roman Politics 8. Milton’s Italianate Epic: From Dante to Heroic Romance in "Paradise Lost" 9. The Tragic Music of Samson Agonistes in the Age of Monteverdi
Biography
Catherine Gimelli Martin is Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA.
"Milton's Italy's reconsideration of Milton's Italian influences is certainly timely. ... In this way Milton's Italy shows too the marks of another scholarly shift in early modern studies, the religious "turn," givis us a picture of Milton almost as a kind of Catholic sympathizer." -- Su Fang Ng, Virginia Tech
"Martin convincingly emphasizes the importance of a broad comparative approach to appreciate fully Milton’s poetic, political, and religious development in the light of his Italian experience."
Daniele Borgogni - University of Turin
