79. _English Translation of Alcon._--Is there any translation of _Alcon_
by Baldisare Castiglione? The _Lycidas_ of Milton is a splendid
paraphrase of it. The parallel passages are to be found in (I think) No.
47. of the _Classical Journal_, published formerly by Valpy. The
prototypes of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are at the beginning of
Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_. Thus three of Milton's early poems
cannot be termed wholly original.