On the Late Massacre in Piedmont - J. Milton

64 On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
The sixty-fourth poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK:

The Late Massacre: the Vaudois persecution, carried on in 1655 by the Duke of Savoy. This "collect in verse," as it has been justly named, is the most mighty Sonnet in any language known to the Editor. Readers should observe that, unlike our sonnets of the sixteenth century, it is constructed , on the original Italian or Provençal model,—unquestionably far superior to the imperfect form employed by Shakespeare and Drummond.