...his Areopagitica - Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing (1644), he mentions his meeting with "the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in Astronomy otherwise then the Franciscan and Dominican licenser thought."33 Galileo's martyrdom as a legend, however, prospered...

...celebrated defense of a free press. Milton recalled his visit to Florence a few years earlier, saying: "There it was that I found and visited the famous...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers of thought." In the same year. Sir Kenelm Digby published at Paris the first edition of his Two treatises,...

...figure of heroic intellectual freedom for Milton, who elsewhere reported on his visit to Florence: "There it was that I found and visited the famous...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought" (Milton 737-8). I want to use Shakespeare and Milton as emblematic figures writing on either side of...

...over the latter's discoveries, and has the following to say about him in his Areopagitica: "[In Italy] it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought."244 In Paradise Lost, he describes the shield of Lucifer in these terms: *.-.. 243 Jonathan...

...of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.4 On these much-quoted lines of Milton's political rhetoric is anchored the conventional wisdom...

...these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo0, grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition for thinking...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...

...Galileo's life, the great English poet John Milton visited him at Arcetri. Milton described Galileo as "a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought." In 1992, the Church — at the urging of Pope John Paul II — exonerated Galileo by repealing the...

...of Italian wits, that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner of the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers...

...Englishman "happy to be born in such a place of Philosophic freedom, as they suppos'd England was ..." There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the Prelaticall yoak, nevertheless I...

...of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo,...than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I...