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Author(s) / Contributor(s)
Language English
Year 1651
Text Type LetterAdvice
Available Online Yes
Web Link(s)
Prose / Verse prose
Themes
  • InstrTravelers
  • PractAdvice
Activity Zones
  • England
  • France
  • Italy
Authorship Notes This short letter to Milton contains brief advice about best the route through France and on to Italy. In addition it translates travel advice from one 'Alberto Scipioni, an old Roman Courtier': 'I Pensieri Stretti, & il viso sciolto: that is, [with] Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose, [you] will go safely over the whole World'. In the 1651 edition the letter occurs at pp. 432-435. In the 1654 edition this letter is titled 'Letter to Mr. Milton'.
Edition(s)
Edition Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems with Characters of Sundry Personages: and other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art by the Curious Pencil of the Ever Memorable Sr. Henry Wotton Late Provost of Eton College
Pages 6
Position pages 394-399
Year 1651