Notes to Chapter 126 EL 60. Phillips lists Cato, Varro, Pliny’s Natural History, Cornelius Celsus, Vitruvius’s
Architecture, Lucretius, Hesiod, Homer, Aratus’s Phaenomena, Apollonius Rhodius’s
Argonautica, Plutarch, Xenophon’s Institutes of Cyrus, and several others. For the quadrivial
studies he specifies Urstisius’s Arithmetic, Riff’s Geometry, Petiscus’s Trigonometry,
and John de Sacro Bosco’s De Sphaera.
27 Giovanni Villani, Chroniche... nelle quali si tratta dell’origine di Firenze (Venice, 1537);
Pierre Avity, Les Empires, royaumes, estats... et principautez du monde (St Omer, 1614),
trans. E. Grimstone, The Estates, Empires, and Principalities of the World (London, 1615).
28 Historical MSS Commission, Third Report (1872), 3.
29 Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Regum
Anglicorum; John Hardyng, Chronicle; John Stow, Annales, or General Chronicle of Eng-
land; Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland; John Speed, The
Historie of Great Britaine; Sir Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglicorum; William Camden,
Annales Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum, Regnante Elizabetha ad Annum Salutis 1589 ;
John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt; William Lambard, Archeion,
or a Commentary upon the High Courts of Justice in England; André du Chesne, Histoire
générale d’Angleterre, d’Ecosse, et d’Irelande; George Buchanan, Rerum Scoticarum Historia;
Edmund Campion, The History of Ireland; Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of
Ireland. See James Holly Hanford, “The Chronology of Milton’s Private Studies,” John
Milton: Poet and Humanist (Cleveland, 1966), 88–96; CPW I, 362–513; Jackson C.
Boswell, Milton’s Library (New York and London, 1975); and my bibliography for the
editions Milton used or may have used for these works and those listed in notes 30 and
31.
30 Joannes Sleidan, Commentarii de Statu Religionis et Reipublicae, Carolo Quinto, Caesare;
Paulus Jovius, Historia Sui Temporis; Niccolo Machiavelli, Dell’Arte della Guerra and
Discorsi; Girolamo Savonarola, Oracolo della Renovatione della Chiesa; Paolo Sarpi, Historia
Del Concilio Tridentino; and Bernard de Girard, L’Histoire de France. Others include Philippe
de Commines, Les Memoires; Sesellius (Claude de Seissel), De Monarchia Franciae; and
Jacques Auguste de Thou, Historia sui temporis.
31 Chaucer, Canterbury Tales and Romaunt of the Rose, in Workes, ed. Speght; Gower,
Confessio Amantis; Aristotle, Ethics; Caesar, Commentaries; Lactantius, De Ira and Divinae
Institutiones; Cyprian, De Singularitate Clericorum; Johannes Cuspinian (Hans Spiesshaymer),
Historia Caesarum et Imperatorum Romanorum; Joannes Sinibaldus, Geneanthropeia; Sozomen,
Historia Ecclesiastica; Roger Ascham, Toxophilus: The Schoole of Shootinge.
32 From the topic “Of Poetry” (CPW I, 381). Other such extracts deal with the punish-
ment of magistrates for bribery and corruption, the evil of forbidding marriage to the
clergy, and King Alfred as promoter of learning, under the topics “Of Justice,” “Mar-
riage,” “Of the Knowledge of Literature,” “Of Poetry,” and “Of Lust” (CPW I, 378,
388, 381, 369). For dating, see Hanford, “Milton’s Private Studies,” 88–96.
33 CPW I, 424. He also cites examples of lawyers bending the laws to princes’ wishes (426).
34 CPW I, 502–3; Ascham, Toxophilus.
35 CPW I, 442. Cf. Smith, De republica Anglorum, 10. Lambard, Archeion, is cited to the
effect that by ancient English custom the lord chancellor, the chief justice, and the
treasurer were elected or deposed by parliament (449).
36 Smith (supplemented by Aristotle) supplies terms for Milton’s distinction between a
king and a tyrant: “ ‘A K. is who by succession or election commeth with good will of
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