FRANCIS HENRY CLIFFE

LONDON: JOHN MACQUEEN

1896

CONTENTS.

I.INTRODUCTION1

II.DANTE2

III.PETRARCH24

IV.BOCCACCIO AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY33

V.WRITERS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY40

VI.ARIOSTO45

VII.POETS CONTEMPORARY WITH ARIOSTO55

VIII.MACHIAVELLI AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY62

IX.BERNARDO AND TORQUATO TASSO74

X.MARINO, CHIABRERA, FILICAIA, AND OTHER POETS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY110

XI.GALILEO AND THE PROSE WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY133

XII.CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY147

XIII.METASTASIO151

XIV.PARIMI167

XV.ALFIERI174

XVI.OTHER POETS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY182

XVII.PROSE WRITERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY190

XVIII.CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY201

XIX.LEOPARDI208

XX.MANZONI258

XXI.SILVIO PELLICO266

XXII.POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY274

XXIII.PROSE WRITERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY280

XXIV.CONCLUSION283

INDEX285