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Excerpt from Milton Tercentenary Celebration: The Italian Journey
Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican friars thought.
From Florence, Milton traveled on to Rome where during the months of October and November, 1638, he visited and studied those well known land marks of antiquity, the Coliseum, the Pantheon, the Capitol, Tar pian Rock, etc. He received quite as much attention in Rome as in Florence, particularly from the Cardinal Barberini. He also had the supreme delight of hearing sing Leonora Baroni, the Adelina Patti of that day in whose honor he later composed three Latin epigrams.
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