“…The bilingual English poet Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) is the author of a short Latin epic on the Gunpowder Plot (1605). Estelle Haan has provided the first critical edition based on all three manuscripts known and the original printed edition (Cambridge, 1627). …”

“…In the central centuries of the Modern Age, Latin was the official language of the Church of Rome, but from the analysis of papal edicts and decrees, it emerges that Vernacular was preferred as common language. …”