JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

AUTHOR OF

STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS, SKETCHES IN ITALY AND GREECE, ETC.

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'Di questi adunque oziosi principi, e di queste vilissime armi, sarà piena la mia Istoria'

MACH. 1st Fior. lib. i.

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NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1888

RENAISSANCE IN ITALY.

TO

MY FRIEND

JOHN BEDDOE, M.D., F.R.S.,

I DEDICATE MY WORK

ON

THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.

AUTHOR'S EDITION

AUTHORS NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

Though these books taken together and in the order planned by the author form one connected study of Italian culture at a certain period of history, still each aims at a completeness of its own, and each can be read independently of its companions. That the author does not regard acquaintance with any one of them as essential to a profitable reading of any other has been shown by the publication of each with a separate title-page and without numeration of the volumes, while all three bear the same general heading of "Renaissance in Italy."