Martial ode : written for the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company by Thomas William Parsons : music by Leon Keach : manuscript, 1888.

Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...

Keach, Leon, b. 1854.

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Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

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Developed to provide systematic instuction in military duties, the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Comapany of Massachusetts is an independent military group chartered by the General Court on March 13, 1638/39 as the Military Company of Massachusetts. By 1708 it was consistently called the Honorable Artillery Company, and in 1738 the word "Ancient" was added to its name. Under the charter, the group is free to choose its own officers, with the choice for those holding the rank of Captain and Lie...