Note 418 — Chapter II · THE ITALIAN DECADENCE AND THE SPANIARDS.
Reading edition
Attention was first recalled to Tassoni in recent times by M. Hippolyte Rigault in his Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. But I was not myself introduced to the Pensieri by that excellent book, and the things in them which seem to me most interesting are not quite those which struck M. Rigault.