Notes to Chapter 125 See chapter 3, pp. 65–6 and chapter 5, pp. 126–7.
26 Among the histories are Gildas, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae; Giovanni Villani,
Chroniche... nelle quali si tratta dell’origine di Firenze (a book Edward Phillips studied
with Milton); Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia; Sesellius (Claude de Seissel), De Monarchia
Franciae, trans. Johannes Sleidan; Pierre Gilles, Histoire ecclesiastique des Eglises reformées
... apelées eglises Vaudoises (on the Waldensians); and Paulo Sarpi, Istoria del Concilio
Tridentino. His reading in Roman and early church history included Theodoret, Historia
Ecclesiastica; Socrates Scholasticus, Historia Ecclesiastica; and Codinus (Georgius Curopalata),
De Officiis Magnae Ecclesiae et Aulae Constantinopolitanae. For editions he used or may
have used of works cited here and in the following notes, see Hanford, “Milton’s Pri-
vate Studies,” 87–98; Jackson C. Boswell, Milton’s Library (New York and London,
1975); and my bibliography.
27 De Thou (Thuanus), Historia sui Temporis; Girard, L’Histoire de France. See chapter 5,
note 30
28 The biblical commentaries include Peter Martyr, In Librum Judicum; Basil, Homiliae; In
Psalmum I, In Hexameron VIII, In Principium Proverbium; Chrysostom, In Genesim Homiliae;
Rivetus (André Rivet), Praelectiones in Caput XX Exodi; Peter Martyr (Vermigli), In
Librum Judicum. For Hebraica, besides Selden’s De Jure Naturali and Uxor Hebraica, he
cites William Schickhard, Jus Regium Hebraeorum.
29 Justinian, Institutiones Juris Civilis; Leunclavius, Juris Graeco-Romani; Henry Spelman,
Concilia, Decreta... in Re Ecclesiastica Orbis Britanniae; and Jean Bodin, De Republica; on
warfare, he took notes from Robert Ward, Animadversions of Warre, and Sextus Frontinus,
Strategematicon. On noble titles he cites John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie.
30 Francesco Berni, Orlando Innamorato Nuovamenta Composto; Sir Philip Sidney, The
Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia; Trajano Boccalini, De’ Ragguagli di Parnasso; Tasso,
Gerusalemme Liberata; Alessandro Tassoni, Dieci Libri di Pensieri Diversi; Giacomo Tomasini,
Petrarcha Redivivus.
31 Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World; Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or
Purchas His Pilgrimes.
32 “Moral” entries include the founding of the most ancient universities of Europe, Paris,
and Pavia (CPW I, 378), the invention of the organ and the musical scale (383), the
“exquisite reasoning” in the argument for suicide in Sidney’s Arcadia (371), and the
cures for gluttonous indulgence used by Indians in Sumatra (368).
33 He instances a married clergy in the ancient church, and in medieval France the fact
that Charlemagne kept concubines and that bastards inherited equally with legitimate
children. Also, that polygamy was allowed to the ancient Jews and practiced by the
early Christian Germans and Britons (CPW I, 413). His examples of divorce include
Charlemagne, William of Orange, René, Duke of Lorraine, and Henry IV, King of
France.
34 Sinibaldus, Geneanthropeia. He also cites Raleigh’s story, in History of the World, 293,
that prohibiting polygamy lost the Congo to Christianity, adding his own conclusion
that this prohibition has “more obstinat rigor in it then wisdom” (CPW I, 411).
35 He cites de Thou (Thuanus) on the legality of the Scots deposing Mary, on the Dutch
Estates General disclaiming obedience to Phillip (CPW I, 445, 455), and on justifica-
tions by ministers and lawyers allowing French Protestants and Scots reformers to
renounce loyalty to Catholic monarchs. From Girard he gathers that the kings of France
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