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 their friendship was the result of family intimacy and common race.

Other of Daniel's friends were Italians. In Wright's Elizabeth and her Times (Vol. II, p. 315), we hear of a Samuel Daniel abroad and in the company of an Italian doctor, Julio Marino. His Description of Beauty translated out of Marino can hardly be connected with the doctor, since the poet's given name was Giambattista, but it serves to illustrate Daniel's knowledge of Italian and interest in Italian literature. That he travelled in Italy in his youth is shown by the headings of two sonnets in the Delia sequence, "At the Author's going into Italie" (sonnet LII), and "This Sonnet was made at the Author's beeing in Italie" (sonnet LI). His first published work, entitled Imprese, was a translation of a Latin tract on crests and seals by the contemporary Italian historian, Paulus Jovius. His friendship with the poet Guarini is indicated by the following sonnet addressed to Sir Edward Dimmock, Daniel's first patron, on an English translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido:—

Lines 9-12 of the sonnet refer clearly to conversation with Guarini, and apparently to a personal friendship. Fur-