Author: Dorian, Donald Clayton
Title: The English Diodatis
Description: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 1950, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. xviii+365pp, b/w frontis (map), 2 b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a slightly edge rubbed dustjacket that has a few small repaired tears. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ A history of Charles Diodati's family & of his friendship with Milton. Charles Diodati [ 1608 - 1638 ], a member of a prominent Italian Calvinist family originally from Lucca. Diodati's father Theodore was a court physician in England, with a practice in London. When Charles died, Milton composed an elegy entitled Epitaphium Damonis in his friend's memory, and included a headnote saying that they 'had pursued the same studies' and that they were the 'most intimate friends from childhood on'.

Keywords: biography, milton, english literature, poetry