scrupulous. On the Italian journey that was so important to [John] Milton in his late twenties they record: "It was long thought that Milton visited the Svogliati in the palace of Jacopo Gaddi in Piazza Madonna, but the census of 1632 places Iacopo Gaddi e fratelli a few yards away in the family's new palazzo in Via del Giglio, in the building that is now the Hotel Astoria". Such attention to detail comes only from love of one's subject. The reader is left in little doubt that on their next trip to Florence Professors Campbell and Corns will book into the Astoria as an act of homage. from The Times Literary Supplement: The power of Milton
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