andreini

Updated: June 10, 2025

The Adamo of Andreini was a personage sufficiently original and poetical to serve as the model of the Adam of Milton. The youthful English poet, at its representation, carried it away in his mind. Wit, indeed, is a great traveller; and thus also the "Empiric" of Massinger might have reached us from the Bolognese Dottore. The late Mr.

R. J. Broadbent - A History of Pantomime

There had been at least three editions of the Adamo by 1641, and Milton may have brought one of these with him, among the books which he had shipped from Venice, even, if he had not seen the drama on the Italian stage, or had not, as Todd suggests, met Andreini in person. So much appears to me to be certain from the internal evidence of the two compositions as they stand.

Mark Pattison - Milton