Notes to Chapter 1134 See chapter 3, p. 75. He prefaces the Latin and Greek poems with the eulogies offered
him on his Italian travels by Manso, Giovanni Salsilli, Carlo Dati, Antonio Francini,
and Selvaggi (see chapter 4, pp. 95–8, 102–4).
135 See chapter 2, pp. 23–4, 42.
136 Lines 3–6: “Harmful error led me wrong, and my unruly youth was an immoral
teacher – until the shady Academy offered me the Socratic waters, and taught me to
put off the yoke to which I had submitted.” Trans. C. Moseley, Poetic Birth, 231.
137 “To my Lady,” in Poems, &. Written by Mr. Ed. Waller (London, 1645), sig. A 2r–v.
Waller insists that poetry is the business of youth, not sober maturity: “These Nightin-
gales sung only in the spring, it was the diversion of their youth... So that not so
much to have made verses, as not to give over in time, leaves a man without excuse.”
138 Stella P. Revard, “Ad Joannem Rousium,” MS 19 (1984), 205–26; also Milton and the
Tangles of Neaera’s Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems (Columbia, Mo., 1997), 237–
- The poem was published last in the 1673 volume, serving there as a kind of envoy.
139 Translations are from Hughes.
140 See, for example, Variorum I, 324–7; E. M. W. Tillyard, Milton (London, 1930), 169–
72; Walter MacKellar, The Latin Poems of John Milton (New Haven, Conn., 1930),
358–60; and Revard, “Ad Joannem Rousium.”
141 See page 223.
142 See, for example, Milton’s commentary on Machiavelli from the 1640s in the Com-
monplace Book, CPW I, 421, 443; also see von Maltzahn, Milton’s History of Britain,
on the impact of Sallust and Tacitus on Milton’s History.
143 See Martin Dzelzainis, “Milton’s Classical Republicanism,” and Thomas Corns, “Milton
and the Characteristics of a Free Commonwealth,” in David Armitage, Armand Himy,
and Quentin Skinner, eds, Milton and Republicanism (Cambridge, 1995), 3–42. Also,
Quentin Skinner, “Milton and the Politics of Slavery,” Lecture, Sixth International
Milton Symposium, York, England, July 18–23, 1999.
144 That theory was fully developed in Filmer’s Patriarcha (London, 1680), but was inti-
mated in The Necessity of the Absolute Power of all Kings (London, 1648), and asserted
throughout his Observations Concerning the Original of Government (London, 1652).
145 See Victoria Kahn, “The Metaphorical Covenant,” in Armitage, et al, Milton and
Republicanism, 82–105.
146 See Blair Worden, “English Republicanism,” in The Cambridge History of Political Thought,
1450–1700, ed. J. H. Burns (Cambridge, 1991), 443–57.
Chapter 8 “The So-called Council of State... Desired to Employ My
Services” 1649–16521 The principal modern editions of Milton’s State Papers are CPW V.2 (introduced by J.
Max Patrick) and the Columbia edition (vol. 13). The primary manuscript collections
are: the Columbia manuscript (Columbia University X823M64/S52) compiled not
earlier than 1659 by an unknown scribe who had access to one of Milton’s files, and the
Skinner manuscript (PRO SP 9/194) prepared in 1674 from another file. From a third
manuscript collection which has not survived, two printed editions appeared in 1676
from different continental publishers but with the same title, Literae Pseudo-SenatusNotes to Chapter 7–8