Abstract
In February of 1639, Milton was invited by Lukas Holste, Pope Urban VIII's librarian, to attend a performance at the Barberini Palace in Rome of Chi soffre, speri, a pastoral comedy. The pope's nephews. Cardinals Francesco and Antonio Barberini, were hosts for the “3,500”1 who attended the event. It was an honor to be invited and an unusual opportunity for the young English scholar to hear one of the new “musical dramas” that were being given in Rome, Florence, and Venice. It was an extraordinary evening not only for the performance and its auspices but for the palace in which it was given.2
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