Cultural References
Lowell refers to:
- Pope Pius XII and his defining the dogma of Mary's bodily assumption (declared November 1950).
- A Swiss attempt to climb Mount Everest (attempts actually made in May 1952 & the autumn of 1952 by Raymond Lambert).
- Benito Mussolini, 'The Duce'
- The golden bough that Aeneas used to ensure safe passage through the underworld.
- Ovid
- Minerva who was born from the head of Zeus.
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