John Milton, Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus and Uncollected Letters

The commentary stands out for me as the greatest achievement of the edition, a triumph of contextualizing. Every person named or place visited is brought to life for Milton’s readers. The research that informed Haan’s earlier work on the Italian academies is deployed and extended, gloriously. [...] I welcome this very full edition with delight. It is always good tothink with, and heuristically to argue with.
John K. Hale, University of Otago, Neo-Latin News Vol. 68, Nos. 1&2

This edition, an impressive work of scholarship, with Latin text and a new English translation on facing pages, includes an Introduction and a detailed commentary on each of the letters, keyed to the Latin text. The edition, which gives a clear, informative account of Milton’s place in the tradition of Neo-Latin poetry and prose, is consistently focused upon the ways in which these Latin and vernacular letters provide a valuable insight into Milton’s career as a poet and Christian humanist, writing in Latin for an international audience. Estelle Haan, who has published widely on bilingualism and the writings in Latin of Marvell and Milton, is probably, along with John Hale, the leading authority on Milton’s Latin poetry and prose, and this edition is admirable in every respect.Warren Chernaik, Modern Language Review, 116 (2021), 15–20

Thanks to Estelle Haan, students and scholars regardless of their linguistic training are now well positioned to appreciate yet another dimension of Milton’s classicism in this accurate, thorough, and accessible edition of his 'Epistolae familiares' and related correspondence. In presenting this material to the world, she and the general editors of 'Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia' at Leuven University Press have undoubtedly expanded Milton’s “fit audience… though few” (PL 7.31), for which they deserve the gratitude and congratulations of all who love the classics in any language.Michael B. Sullivan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.03.58

Estelle Haan provides translations that are usefully fastidious [...] The introduction situates them helpfully in the long tradition of classical and Neo-Latin formal epistles, and Haan’s meticulous commentary offers invaluable assistance in orienting the reader to the specificities of Milton’s stylistic choices.
Joseph Loewenstein, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Volume 61, Number 1, Winter 2021, pp. 127-177, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.0007