1652 John Milton CROMWELL Defensio Execution Charles I Saumaise Royalist London

1652 John Milton CROMWELL Defensio Execution Charles I Saumaise Royalist London

Claude Saumaise was a 17^th-century French scholar known for his editions and commentary of classical works and Greek anthologies. However, he also published a defense of Charles I of England following his execution. Curiously, Saumaise’s ‘Defensio Regia’ takes on a thoroughly royalist agenda, even from a Frenchman, and Charles II even helped publish the book. This book even inspired John Milton who published his own piece of political propaganda that covered the events of Charles I and II.

Milton’s “Defensio pro populo Anglicano” was first published in 1651 and was Cromwellian propaganda justifying parliament’s decisions during Cromwell’s reign.

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MILTON, John

Ioannis Miltoni Angli Pro populo Angelicano defensio, contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii, Defensionem regiam

Londini: typis du Gardianis, 1652.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 192
• References: Wing M 2169A
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5.25in X 3in (13cm x 7.5cm)

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