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yiscount of , Sli go * who , of his own accord , introduced me , accompanied by several oi his ( suite ,: to the learned . Hugo Grotiusj at that time ambassador fronjf tJi 0 iQu ^« n oft . Sweden to the King of France ^ and whoTrilwas very desirous of < seeit » gv . On my setting out for Italy some days -after ; hejgavift nfce letters ; tc > the English merchants on < nvy rouV that th « y might ' bei deafly « odt > me ? any service in their power ; Taking ship at Nice ; I arrived at'Genoa * initf soon after at Leghorn and ( Pisa , thence to Florence . Itt this * last dtv 9 whM \
I haiee always valued above r the ! rest for the elegance of its dialect arid of its genius /; I continued about two months-. Here I Sfoon contracted at familiar acquaintance ? with many / persons eminent fori their rank and learning , and regularly frequented , also , their private acadetnies- ^ an institution whici deserves the highest - commendation , as calculated to preserve at once politer letters and- friendly ? { intercourse : for the pleasing , the delightful recoilectioirI still retain of you , Jacobo ; Gaddi , of youy € arolo Dati , Friscobaidi , OolteHino ^ BoBmatfchei * ; © leraentillo , Fraacind , and many others , no time will eil&eei From { Florences I pursued my route to Sienna , and then to Rome * and having been detained about two months in this city by its antiquities and ancient '¦ $ & }
nown , ( where I enjoyed the accomplished society of Lucas Holstensiusaiid many other learned ami superior men , ) I proceeded to Naples . Here T WaS introduced by a certaiti ' htermit , with'whom I had travelled from * Rothe , to John Baptista Manso , Marquis of Villa , a man of the first rank and authority , to ' whom the illustrious poet Torquato-Tasso addressed his book on friehaship . By him I , w ^ s-treated , while I stayed there , with all the warmth of friendship ; for he conducted me Mraself over the most remarkable parts of the city > and more th ^ n once came to visit me at my otvn lodgings . On my ?
leaving ^ Naples he gravely apologized for shewing me no more attentipu , alleging , ^ h at although it was what he wished above all things , it was not iH his power in 1 that "city , because I had not thought proper to be more guardecf oi ^ the point of reiigibn . As I was preparing to pass over , also , into Sicily and ^ refec < e > , i was restrained by the melancholy tidings from England of , tli ^ civil wa £ > ti ! f 6 r ! thought it base that 1 should be travelling at my ease , even for / the ' iliapro ^ einerit of my min d abroad , while my fellow-iCitizens were ^ ghtinQ >* Mvit \ Mt libertVat home . As I was about to return to Rome , the
merckants ^ gaveintt e anc intimation that they had learnt from their letters , that , in case ' o ^ uay-rtevlslting' Rome , the English Jesuits had laid a plot for me , because it '» hadf ' kpdkeii too freely on the subject of religion : for I had laid it downi d $ r&piil& for myself nfeVer to begin a conversation on religion in those part 8 * ilMifc if iftten * 6 g ated ccfneerning my faith , whatever might be the conser quence ^ ltdr disse » ibie ' nothing . 1 , therefore , returned notwithstanding to Home ; I coneeated . from no one who asked the question what I was ; , if any one attacked me , I defended , in the most open manner , as before , the
orthodox faithyfoF nearly two months more in the city , even of the sovereign pjoutiff himself . By the will'bf God , I arrived safe again at Florence ^ revisiting those who Iotige 4 no less to see me than if I had returned to my own country . There I / AVillingly stopped as many months as before , except tjiat I qiade au excursion for a few days to Lucca ; \ vhen , crossing the Apeririine , ! m ^ dji the best of my way , through Bononia and Ferr ^ ' ra , to Venice Having spjent a month iit » getting a survey'oCtliils city , and seqn the ; books sfuppei w ^ icfc \ had collected in Italy ; I vvas brought , by way of , Verona , JVIUan , aud t \ ie Paenine Alps ; arid alotog the ? la&e Lfeinano , to fcrehevii : ^ T ^ id citjf , as ' it Ap ings to nay recollectioVithe ^ slanderer More , make ^ ' ^ ti a ^ aM call Gcjdjto witness , that in all these places vvhere so niuch licence "is gi ' yeii i ^ I , lifted ? ' Irje ^ ' aq ^ l untouched -of all defilement y ktM p ^ bfllgate ; behiaVfour , ' , haying k' ever in my thought ^ that 4 £ ( I cotild est * a 1 pe th ^ e eyes' of ^ dri , ! 1 ter ^ aittl y ^ oiuld not escap e the eyes of God . v At tieaeva I had ^^ daily ih ^ ercoiir ^ e w ^ ti John Diodati , the very learned professor dirdivinity . Then , by ^ e sam e rout as before , I
returned through France , ta my own country , after-an absence of a year ani ahout three months . I arrived nearly at the tiine that ( Jhaxles , breaking the pacification , renewed the war , callea the episcopal Avar , with the Scots , in
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Autobiography of John Milton , 685
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/29/
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