The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....
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The crown of stars, representing immortality, may derive from the story of Ariadne, especially as told by Ovid, in which the unhappy Ariadne is turned into a constellation of stars, the Corona Borealis (Crown of the North), modelled on a jewelled crown she wore, and thus becoming immortal.
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The first use of the crown of stars as an allegorical Crown of Immortality may be the ceiling fresco, Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (1633–39), in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona.
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