Milton and Galileo
- Andrew J. Bramlett
- Oct 5, 2022
- 1 min read
This 1847 painting depicts two of the most important individuals of the seventeenth century: John Milton and Galileo Galilei. The two met in Florence in 1638, four years before Galileo’s death and almost thirty years before Milton’s Paradise Lost was published.
Image: “Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition” by Solomon Alexander Hart (1847). From the Wellcome Collection.
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