English Catholic Poets in mid-Seventeenth-Century Rome

A major study of the closely linked group of English Catholics who lived and wrote poetry in Italy in the mid-seventeenth century is long overdue. Among them were some of the most highly respected Latin poets in Europe, true heirs to the international reputations of George Buchanan (1506–82), the ‘Admirable’ James Crighton (1560–82)., John Owen (c. 1560–1622), Thomas Dempster (1579–1625) and John Barclay (1582–1621), whose bust by François Duquesnoy is still to be found in the Museo Tassiano at S. Onofrio.