CHAPTER XVI.

HISTORY OF POLITE LITERATURE IN PROSE FROM 1550 TO 1600.

Italian Writers 369

Casa 369

Tasso 370

Firenzuola 370

Character of Italian Prose 370

Italian Letter Writers 370

Davanzati’s Tacitus 371

Jordano Bruno 371

French Writers--Amyot 371

Montaigne; Du Vair 371

Satire Menippée 372

English Writers 372

Ascham 372

Euphues of Lilly 373

Its Popularity 373

Sydney’s Arcadia 374

His Defence of Poesie 374

Hooker 374

Character of Elizabethan Writers 374

State of Criticism 375

Scaliger’s Poetics 375

His Preference of Virgil to Homer 375

His Critique on Modern Latin Poets 376

Critical Influence of the Academics 376

Dispute of Caro and Castelvetro 377

Castelvetro on Aristotle’s Poetics 377

Severity of Castelvetro’s Criticism 377

Ercolano of Varchi 378

Controversy about Dante 378

Academy of Florence 378

Salviati’s Attack on Tasso 379

Pinciano’s Art of Poetry 379

French Treatises of Criticism 379

Wilson’s Art of Rhetorique 379

Gascoyne; Webbe 380

Puttenham’s Art of Poesie 380

Sydney’s Defence of Poesy 380

Novels of Bandello 380

Of Cinthio 381

Of the Queen of Navarre 381

Spanish Romances of Chivalry 381

Diana of Monte-Mayor 382

Novels in the Picaresque Style 382

Guzman d’Alfarache 382

Las Guerras de Granada 383

Sydney’s Arcadia 383

Its Character 383

Inferiority of other English Fictions 384

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