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You may have read in the press, that newly published letters reveal the poet John Milton travelled to Florence, and while there met the great Galileo.

Other documents, recently discovered, point to Milton having been an addictive gambler during his time in Italy. Apparently he always carried the necessary equipment with him, but was often careless with it. In a typical entry from his diary, he wrote

Pair of dice, lost.

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