Chapter XLIX
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CHAPTER XLIX
1400.The glory and progress of Italy while divided into many states253
1492-1530.Her long struggle against foreign aggression is closed in servitude253
1533-1600.Spanish domination fatal to manners, language, and literature254
” ”This evil augmented by the Academies255
” ”The Assorditi of Urbino255
” ”The influence of the Reformation, how excluded from Italian letters257
” ”The age of rhetoricians and fulsome compliment257
” ”Mathematics and engineering studied at Urbino259
1509-1575.Federigo Comandino of Urbino260
1544. Guidobaldo Marchese del Monte262
1529-1591.Francesco Paciotti of Urbino262
-1560.Gian Giacomo Leonardi of Pesaro264
1569-1639.Muzio Oddi of Urbino265
1553-1612.Bernardino Baldi of Urbino, his vast acquirements and numerous works266
His Lives of Dukes of Urbino273
1496-1576.Girolamo Muzio of Capo d'Istria, biographer of the Dukes274
1555-1602.Federigo Bonaventura of Urbino277