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Italy, European Intellectual Life, and the Pamphlet Wars of the 1640s Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645; Willem de Groot, 1597-1662, ed.
Lugduni Batav.: apud Hieronymum de Vogel, 1639. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. Milton concluded his six years of quiet study with a remarkable eighteen-month tour to various centers of European antiquity and intellectual life, notably Italy. Early in his tour, in Paris in April 1638, he was able to meet one of his great intellectual heroes, the Dutch legal theorist Hugo Grotius, exiled from Holland but then serving as the Swedish ambassador to France. Among Grotius's Latin writings were two significant for Milton's own later poetry, the drama Adamus Exsul (1601) and the poem Christus patiens (published 1619). (The library's earliest edition of Milton's third great neo-Latin poetic influence, with Buchanan and Grotius, Marco Girolamo Vida's
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