![]() In fact, Milton’s narrator’s assertion regarding Adam’s and Eve’s respective raisons d’être-“He for God only, she for God in him” (4.299)-was some three centuries ago deemed sufficiently problematic by the noted British philologist Richard Bentley that, in his controversial 1732 edition of Paradise Lost, he changed this offending line to “He for God only, she for God AND him” (the caps are Bentley’s), thus affording Eve the dignity of directly serving God as well as her husband. ![]() I will conclude this essay by noting that this concern is not a recent one. (3.490-97)īut long preceding Florida’s recent law has been the more subtle restriction exercised by instructors who, finding Milton’s depiction of human sexuality to be excessively patriarchal (although many scholars assert that Paradise Lost is remarkably egalitarian for its time period), have simply chosen not to teach Milton’s epic at all. Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The sport of Winds: all these upwhirled aloftįly o’re the backside of the World far off Significantly, this decision was made even though Rolli had omitted from his translation the infamous Paradise of Fools passage (book 3, lines 474-97), in which Satan, journeying from Hell to Earth and passing through Limbo, sees among other things the following trappings of the Roman Catholicism that Milton condemns:Ĭowles, Hoods and Habits with their wearers tossedĪnd fluttered into Rags, then Relics, Beads, ![]() Significantly, in Areopagitica, Milton belittles the Index, saying that it was controlled by “two or three glutton Friars” who see fit to “rake through the entrails of many an old good author.” But Milton’s epic faced the Index’s censure when, in 1732 Rome decided to place Paolo Rolli’s 1729 translation of Paradise Lost-the first such translation in Italian-on the Index, a decision codified in the 1758 Index. From 1758 to 1900, Paradise Lost appeared in one way or another in the Roman Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum ( Index of Prohibited Books).
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