From Alessandro Torri’s preface to the first volume of L’Ottimo Commento as edited by himself and others of the Accademia della Crusca (1827):| Arthur O’Dwyer
My grandmother’s grandfather was David Celyddon Phillips (1848–1915), Welsh-born minister and poet, known by the bardic name “Celyddon.” Recently I learned that my second cousin David M. Phillips Jr. has in his possession a leatherbound, hand-written copy of D. C. Phillips’ long narrative poem The Promised One, or, Jesus of Nazareth — previously unpublished as far as either of us know, despite that one of Celyddon’s lengthy obituaries mentions:| Arthur O’Dwyer