A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 26 — Chapter II · EARLY ITALIAN CRITICS.

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Politian’s critical faculty shows to more advantage here than in his attribution of the Epistles of the Pseudo-Phalaris to Lucian (see Bentley’s immortal Dissertation). He had almost better—from the literary point of view—have believed them genuine.

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