On Lyly: I'm no expert, but on this whole Martinist question the man who
has a lot of answers is Joe Black at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. He's on this list and if he doesn't answer it's misplaced
modesty or something. To my ear *Almond for a Parrat* sounds very much
like Nashe, but that could be the genre. The preface mentions Rabelais,
with a forgivable mistake (the author thinks Rabelais wrote it to her dead
soul, but in fact she was alived and simply had a soul at home in the
heavens) and I do think, although I can't actually prove, that Nashe
admired Rabelais. But to repeat--the man anyone interested in Martinist
stuff wants is Joe Black. Anne Prescott.
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