 Unsurprisingly, Mantuan's attack on corruption within the church reverberated through English literature.Eventually it shifted from being used to attack the Papal Curia to become in John Milton's "Lycidas" a sanction for his indictment in pastoral poetry of "our corrupted" English clergy.As a dominant model for the English eclogue, Mantuan's "Adulescenta" heavily influenced Edmund Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender".