The Merit Of This Discovery Belongs To Francesco Zicari,
Whose Paper, 'Sulla Scoverta Dell' Originale Italiano Da Cui Milton
Trasse Il Suo Poema Del Paradiso Perduto,' Is Printed On Pages 245
To 276 In The 1845 Volume Of The Naples 'Album Scientifico-
Artistico-Letterario' Now Lying Before Me.
It is in the form of
a letter addressed to his friend Francesco Ruffa, a native of
Tropea in Calabria.
[Footnote: Zicari contemplated another paper on
this subject, but I am unaware whether this was ever published. The
Neapolitan Minieri-Riccio, who wrote his 'Memorie Storiche' in 1844,
speaks of this article as having been already printed in 1832, but does
not say where. This is corroborated by N. Falcone ('Biblioteca
storica-topo-grafica della Calabria,' 2nd ed., Naples, 1846, pp.
151-154), who gives the same date, and adds that Zicari was the author
of a work on the district of Fuscaldo. He was born at Paola in Calabria,
of which he wrote a (manuscript) history, and died in 1846. In this
Milton article, he speaks of his name being 'unknown in the republic of
letters.'. He it mentioned by Nicola Leoni (' Della Magna Grecia,' vol.
ii, p. 153),]
Salandra, it is true, is named among the writers of sacred tragedies in
Todd's 'Milton' (1809, vol. ii, p. 244), and also by Hayley, but neither
of them had the curiosity, or the opportunity, to examine his 'Adamo
Caduto'; Hayley expressly says that he has not seen it.
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