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Updated: June 28, 2025
It was then he wrote to his old friend, Diodati: "You asked what I am about what I am thinking of? Why, with God's help, I am thinking of immortality. Forgive the word, it is for your ear alone I am pluming my wings for flight." The good mother had misty, prophetic visions of what this flight might be, and had ceased to counsel her son against the sin of idleness.
It was a heavy task for the poor schoolmaster. No; my lady was 'unmercifull, but not so cruell; she ever and anon upheld his courage, bringing 'to my succour the forces of two deare friends. One of them was Theodore Diodati, tutor of Lady Bedford's brother, the eldest son of Lady Harrington whose husband also was a poet.
If virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Caelum non animum muto, dum trans mare curro. But it is probable that he was a guest in the house of one of the leading pastors, Giovanni Diodati, whose nephew Charles, a physician commencing practice in London, was Milton's bosom friend. Here Milton first heard of the death, in the previous August, of that friend.
Rodolphe's first walk was very naturally to the Villa Diodati, the residence of Lord Byron, whose recent death added to its attractiveness: for is not death the consecration of genius?
They lived in proximity after they left the hotel, Shelley's headquarters being at Mont Alégre, and Byron's for the remainder of the summer at the Villa Diodati; and their acquaintance rapidly ripened into an intimacy which, with some interruptions, extended over the six remaining years of their joint lives.
The romance of the story culminates in the famous Dream, a poem of unequal merit, but containing passages of real pathos, written in the year 1816 at Diodati, as we are told, amid a flood of tears. Miss Chaworth's attractions, beyond those of personal beauty, seem to have been mainly due a common occurrence to the poet's imagination.
John Caime, 1662, refers to 1 Corinthians 12:13, as an illustration of Ephesians 4:5, 'One baptism, 'by one SPIRIT are we all baptized. The Assembly's Annotations, 1657, infers that 'one' means 'once, and refers to the Nicene creed, which says, 'one baptism for the remission of sins'; this surely cannot mean that the application of water remits sins. Diodati, 1648, is silent on this subject.
Ames, Spanheim, Diodati, Marinaro, Cameron, and many more. At the end of the commentary on the Texts, also, there is an express synopsis of testimonies, for the benefit, as Milton is careful to explain, of the weaker sort who are led by authorities, and not because he sets much store on that style of proof himself.
One night, when pouring rain detained Shelley's party at the Villa Diodati over a blazing fire, they told strange stories, till Byron, leading to poetic ideas, recited the witch's scene from "Christabel," which so excited Shelley's imagination that he shrieked, and ran from the room; and Polidori writes that he brought him to by throwing water in his face.
His technical skill is said to have been surpassed by others; but that in which he stands alone is, that in these exercises of imitative art he is able to remain himself, and to give utterance to genuine passion. Artificial Arcadianism is as much the frame-work of the elegy on Diodati as it is of Lycidas.
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