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Renaissance literary theory and practice

INDEX

Reading edition

Abraham and Isaac, 136

Accademia della Crusca, 30

Achilleis (Statius), 185

Achilles Tatius, 79, 87, 188

Acciajuoli, Donato, 214

Actores octo, see Auctores octo

Adrian, Cardinal Corneto, 24

Aeneid, 102, 104, 114, 121, 126, 127, 165, 185

Aeschines, 26

Alain de Lille, 9, 10

Alamanni, Luigi, 13, 67, 96-98

Alberti, Leone Battista, 27

Aldus Manutius, 9, 20

Alexandrian literature, 7, 78, 90

Alexandrianism, 123, 188

Allegory, 123, 130, 133

Alliteration, 87, 129, 199

Alunno, Francesco, 31, 37

Amadis of Gaul, 95

Amants fortunés, Les, 194

Ameto (Boccaccio), 82, 84

Aminta (Tasso), 87, 147, 153

Amyot, Jacques, 23, 90, 238

Anacreon, 21, 79

Annales d’Aquitaine (Bouchet), 134

Anthology, 7, 21, 79, 104

Antigone (Garnier), 142

Antigone (Sophocles), 142

Aphthonius, 21

Apollonius Rhodius, 21, 79, 188

Apuleius, 93, 179, 188

Aquila, Serafino d’, 69

Aquinas, 8, 9

Arcadia (Sannazaro), 83-87

Arcadia (Sidney), 90, 202

Aretino, Leonardo, see Bruni, Leonardo

Ariosto, 9, 11, 24, 30, 67, 91, 96, 101, 104, 111-23, 131, 142, 143, 147, 159, 160, 164, 168, 177, 179, 184, 205

Aristotle, 15, 20, 25, 26, 53, 55, 61, 62, 63, 133, 145, 158, 159, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 238

“Ars poetica” (Horace), 10, 15, 133, 155, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 171, 186, 188

Arte of English Poesie (Campion), 183

Arte of English Poesie (Puttenham), 182

Arte poetica (Minturno), 44n, 168

Arthurian cycle, 96, 98

Art of rhetorique, The (Wilson), 62

Art poétique, L’ (Peletier), 163-64

Art poétique, L’ (Ronsard), 175

Art poétique, L’ (Vauquelin de la Fresnaye), 186

Arts poétiques, 15, 127

Ascham, Roger, 37, 38n, 183

Astrophel and Stella (Sidney), 77

As You Like It (Shakspere), 146

Athenaeus, 21

Auctores octo, 10, 81

Augustan Latin, 18, 44, 58, 65, 234

Aulus Gellius, 10, 188

Aurispa, 20

Ausonius, 10, 79, 188

Avarchide (Alamanni), 96

Ayres, H. M., quoted, 147n

Baif, 34

Balade, 10

Balsamo-Crivelli, Gustavo, 190

Bandello, Matteo, 190-94, 197, 198-99

Bankette of Sapience (Elyot), 227

Baptistes (Buchanan), 139

Basia (Secundus), 66

Bede, 9

Bellay, Cardinal du, 211

Bellay, Joachim du, 10, 32, 34, 69, 163, 238

Belleau, Remi, 21

Belleforest, 198

Bembo, 9, 15, 22, 26, 28, 30, 31, 36, 87, 170, 179, 188

Beolco, Angelo, see Ruzzante

Berni, 111

Besaucèle, 195n

Bessarion, Johannes, 20, 39

Beza, 179

Bibbiena, Cardinal, 179

Blason, 118

Boccaccio, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 60, 67, 82, 84, 87, 104, 121, 153, 170, 177, 179, 185, 186, 194-96

Bodin, 228, 229, 230, 230n, 231, 232

Boece, Hector, 216

Boethius, 9, 25, 37, 85

Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 11, 91, 92, 93, 94, 101-11, 120, 124, 125, 127, 159

Bouchet, Jean, 134

Boulanger, André, 163

Bradamante (Garnier), 142

Brocardo, Jacopo, 63

Brome Abraham and Isaac, 136

Brown, H., 202n

Browne, Sir Thomas, 52

Bruni, Leonardo, 39, 214-17, 226

Buchanan, George, 17, 137-39, 179, 216, 226, 230, 231

Bucolics (Vergil), 80, 165

Bucolicum carmen (Petrarch), 82

Budé, Guillaume, 4, 22, 34, 207n

Bundy, M. W., 162

Caesar, 18, 216

Caesarius, Joannes, 55

Callimachus, 72, 79

Calpurnius, 87

Camillo, Giulio, 50, 55, 56, 170, 171, 188

Campion, Thomas, 183

Capranica, Cardinal, 39

Carde of Fancie (Greene), 201

Carolingian cycle, 100, 101, 124

Cartier, Gabriel, 230n

Castelvetro, 176, 185, 189

Castiglione, Baldassare, 12, 30, 43, 53, 67, 114, 177, 223-25, 231

Cathonet, 10, 81

Cato, 58, 81

Catullus, 57, 58, 65, 66, 72, 86, 87, 170

Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo, 63, 195n

Caviceo, Jacopo, 39, 40

Caxton, William, 37, 96, 98, 130

Certaine notes of instruction concerning ... verse or rime ... (Gascoigne), 180

Cervantes, 132, 213

Chamard, H., 8n

Champier, Symphorien, 93

Chansons de geste, 124

Chappuys, Gabriel, 195n

Charlton, H. B., 176n

Châteillon, Sébastien, 52

Châtelaine de Vergi, 194

Chaucer, 5, 13, 14, 15, 24, 37, 67, 70, 89, 96, 108, 121, 122, 153, 180, 181, 183, 198

Cheke, Sir John, 38n

Chemnicensis, 181

Chivalry, 11, 92, 124, 130, 131

Chronicles, 214

Chrysolaras, Manuel, 20

Cicero, 10, 15, 18, 26, 28, 30, 40, 41, 43-45, 53, 62, 63, 163, 164, 169, 175, 178, 188, 202, 214, 216, 223, 225, 230, 234, 238

Ciceronianism, 44, 45, 48, 49, 51, 53, 57

Cicero thesaurus, 46, 49

Cinthio, Giraldi, 29, 158-61, 188

Clark, D. L., 189n

Classicism, 3, 7, 9, 39, 45, 79, 187, 239

Claudian, 10, 72, 79, 87, 160, 174, 188

Colonna, Francesco, 25, 202, 209

Comedy, 133, 134, 146-54

Comedy of Errors (Shakspere), 147

Comes, Natalis, see Conti, Natale

Compleint d’amour, 118

Concorde des deux langages (Lemaire), 31, 69

Conflictus, 43

Conti, Natale, 23

Cook, Albert S., 178

Copia (Erasmus), 54

Corneille, 53, 145, 154

Cornélie (Garnier), 141

Corpus Christi cycles, 135

Cortegiano (Castiglione), 12, 43, 53, 223, 224

Cortesi, Paolo, 41, 48

Court shows, medieval, 133, 147

Croft, H. S., 227

Cursus, 42

Cuspidius, 211

Cyclical romances, 98, 100, 101, 119

Cyropaedia (Xenophon), 93

Daniel, Samuel, 183

Dante, 5, 8, 13, 14, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 60, 66, 82, 87, 110, 114, 119, 132, 158, 162, 168, 169, 177, 179, 238

Daphnis and Chloe (Longus), 23, 79, 90

Dati, Agostino, 39

De arte poetica (Vida), 155-58

Débat, 42

Débat de Folie et d’Amour (Labé), 71

De bello italico adversos gothos gesto historia (Bruni), 215

Decameron (Boccaccio), 14, 60, 194, 195

De causis corruptarum artium (Vives), 54

De contemptu mundi, 10

De elegantiae linguae latinae, 8, 19

Defence of Ryme (Daniel), 183

Defense of Poesy (Sidney), 89, 178-80

Defense of Poetry (Lodge), 179n

Deffense et illustration de la langue française (Du Bellay), 32

De imitatione (Ricci), 50, 57

De inventione (Cicero), 10, 45

De jure regni apud Scotos dialogus (Buchanan), 230

De laudibus D. Eusebii (Dati), 39

De linguae gallicae origine (Périon), 33

Delivery, 54

Deloney, Thomas, 202

Demosthenes, 21, 26, 28, 63

Denores, Jason, 185

De oratore (Cicero), 15, 43, 44, 45, 53, 225

De poeta (Minturno), 13, 15, 164-67;

excerpt, 4

De ratione dicendi (Vives), 54

De re publica (Bodin), 230n

De senectute (Cicero), 208

De studio literarum (Budé), 4

De Tournes, 13

De tradendis disciplinis (Vives), 54

Dialogo delle lingue (Speroni), 26

Dialogues, 6, 39, 42, 225

Dialogus Ciceronianus (Erasmus), 49

Diana (Montemayor), 186n

Dictamen, 42

Diomedes, 10

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 158

Discorsi dell’ arte poetica ... (Tasso), 176-78

Discorsi ... intorno al comporre de i romanzi, delle commedie, e delle tragedie (Cinthio), 158-61;

excerpt, 29

Discourse of English Poetrie (Webbe), 180

Discussions of Tuscan (Tomitano), 59

Discussions on politics and society, 223-32

Dispositio, 54, 60, 64, 176

Divina Commedia (Dante), 5, 132, 158, 168

Dolce, Lodovico, 30

Donadone, E., 125

Donati, Edouardo, 180

Donatus, 10

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 132, 213

Dorat, Jean, 72, 163

Drama, 12, 87, 133-154, 190

Dramaturgy, 6, 134, 137

Dryden, 13, 132

Du Bellay, see Bellay

Due trattati (Camillo), 55

Eclogues, 81 ff.

Education of Children (Montaigne), 233

Egger, Émile, 21n, 23n, 202

Elizabethan Critical Essays (Smith), 180

Elizabethan drama, 12, 133, 144 ff., 152, 190

Elocutio, 54

Elyot, Sir Thomas, 227, 231

Empedocles, 184

Encomium, 55, 72, 75, 90, 111, 112, 131, 188

Endymion (Lyly), 152

English language, 36-38

English lyric, 66

Epithalamion (Spenser), 74, 77

Erasmus, 17, 40n, 42, 49, 54, 57, 63, 83, 98, 173, 204, 226, 231

Essay on Satire (Dryden), 132

Essays, 223-39

Estrif, 42

Étienne (printers), 9

Étienne, Henri, 21, 23, 34

Etymologiae (Isidore of Seville), 10

Euphues (Lyly), 200

Euphuism, 198, 200, 222

Euripides, 53, 61, 138, 139, 144, 165

Euryalus, 157

Eusebius, 39

Everaerts, Jan, see Secundus

Exempla, 131, 194, 196, 231, 232

Exordium, 60

Fabliau, 109, 120, 134, 190, 194, 196

Fabri, Pierre, 68

Fabrica del mondo, Della (Alunno), 31

Faerie Queene (Spenser), 77, 123, 128-32, 152

Fenton, 198

Fiammetta (Boccaccio), 60

Fichet, Guillaume, 7

Fons Bandusiae, 72

Fracastoro, Girolamo, 162, 163, 170, 179

Frame of the World, The (Alunno), 31

French language, 31-36

Gaguin, Robert, 7

Gallus, Cornelius, 87

Garnier, Robert, 53, 139-44, 150, 151, 153

Gascoigne, George, 180

Gawain and the Green Knight, 96

Genealogia deorum gentilium (Boccaccio), 23

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 9

George of Trebizond, 53

Georgics (Vergil), 165

Gerlandia, Johannes de, 15

Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso), 7, 53, 123, 124-27

Gestes ensemble la vie du preulx chevalier Bayard (Champier), 93

Giovanni di Virgilio, 82

Giraldi Cinthio (Giovan-Battista Giraldi), 195-97

Golden Age, 87, 89

Golden Ass (Apuleius), 93

Golden Legend, 9

Googe, 181

Governour, The (Elyot), 227

Grande et vraie art de pleine rhétorique (Fabri), 68

Gray, Thomas, 74

Greek dramaturgy, 6, 134, 137

Greek exiles in Italy, 20

Greek language, revival, 5 ff., 19-27, 35

Greek Literature, 7, 78, 79, 90, 137, 145, 179, 188

Greek oratory, 40

Greene, Robert, 201

Grotesque, 101, 106

Gryphius, 9, 13

Guarini, 148 ff.

Guarino da Verona, 20, 210

Guicciardini, 228

Gyrone il cortese (Luigi Alamanni), 96

Harvey, Gabriel, 183

Hecatommithi (Giraldi Cinthio), 195-97

Heinsius, 138

Heliodorus, 79, 188

Henry V (Shakspere), 146

Heptameron (Marguerite de Navarre), 14, 194

Hermes Trismegistus, 20

Hermogenes, 21, 55, 63, 79, 160, 170, 171, 188

Herodotus, 92, 214

Hesiod, 181

Hippocrates, Aphorisms, 211

Hippolyte (Garnier), 141

Historiarum florentini (Bruni), 214-17

History, 213-22

History plays, 144-46

History of King Richard the Thirde, The (More), 217-20, 226

Homer, 7, 20, 22, 58, 96, 156, 157, 160, 165, 168, 173, 184, 185

Hooker, Richard, 52, 220

Horace, 65, 71, 72, 73, 86, 87, 114, 131, 156, 160, 161, 166, 168, 169, 170, 174, 179, 180, 181, 182, 189;

“Ars poetica,” 10, 15, 133, 155, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 171, 186, 188

Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 13, 37, 67, 180, 181

Hugh of St. Victor, 9

Humanism, 14, 17-19, 30, 39, 71, 82, 137, 138

Humanistic Latin tragedy, 139

Humbert, Louis, 34n

Hypnerotomachia (Colonna), 25, 202, 209

Idea del theatro, L’ (Camillo), 56

Ideas (Hermogenes), 55

Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 93

Imaginary addresses, 40

Imitatio Christi, 52

Imitation, 19, 39-90, 187

Imitatione poetica, Della (Partenio), 169-71

Inventio, 53, 54, 60, 63, 176

Isidore of Seville, 10

Isocolon, 200

Isocrates, 21

Isopet, 10, 81

Istorie fiorentine (Macchiavelli), 220-22, 224

Italian language, 27-31, 35

Italian orations, 40

Jardin de plaisance, Le, 10

Jean d’ Arras, 95

Jephthes (Buchanan), 138, 139

Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso), 7, 53, 123, 124-27

John of Salisbury, 8, 42, 45

Johnson, Samuel, 42, 212

Jonson, Ben, 89

Juifves, Les (Garnier), 143

Junta, 9

Kelso, Ruth, 162

Labé, Louise, 13, 71

Ladislaus, King, 39

Lancaster, H. C., 142n

Landriani, Gherardo, 44

Latin language, 6, 7, 14, 17, 26, 27, 46, 155, 216, 232

Latin literature, 5, 17-19, 39, 41, 45, 46, 65, 79, 134, 138, 139

Lemaire, Jean, 31, 65, 68, 69, 71

Letters, 39, 41, 42

Libanius, 21

Liber Theoduli, 82

Livy, 21, 63, 213, 214

Lodge, 179n

Longueil, Christophe de (Longolius), 46, 50, 57, 59

Longus, 23, 79

Loyola, 210

Lucan, 10, 79, 174

Lucian, 93, 226

Lucretius, 26, 58, 87, 236

Lumby, J. R., 217

Lydgate, John, 67

Lyly, John, 38, 152, 153, 181, 200

Macchiavelli, 10, 12, 178, 213, 216, 220-24, 229, 231, 232

Macrobius, 188

Maggio, Vicentio, 159

Mair, G. H., 62

Malory, Sir Thomas, 11, 36, 37, 91-99, 103, 105, 107, 130

Manilius, 58

Mantuan (Baptista Spagnolo), 82, 88, 89, 180

Manuals, 15, 53

Marc-Antoine (Garnier), 141

Marguerite de Navarre, 14, 194

Marionettes, Carlomagno, 100

Marlowe, Christopher, 137, 146

Marot, Clement, 65, 67, 70, 75, 90

Martial, 70

Martianus Capella, 10

Matthieu de Vendôme, 10

Medea (Euripides), 138, 139

Medici, Cosimo dei, 12

Medici, Lorenzo de’, 147n

Melanchthon, 179, 228

Melodrama, 12, 144

Mélusine (Jean d’ Arras), 9, 95

Memoria, 54

Menander, 170

Merchant of Venice (Shakspere), 146

Metamorphoses (Ovid), 185

Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem (Bodin), 228

Metric, 180

Michael Angelo, 29

Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakspere), 153

Migne, 42n

Mignonne (Ronsard), 77

Milton, 132, 144

Minturno, 13, 15, 44n, 164-69

Miracle, 133, 134, 135

Miracle plays, 7

Montaigne, 18, 23, 178, 232-39

Montano, Cola, 222

Montemayor, 186n

More, Sir Thomas, 17, 37, 217-20, 226

Morgante maggiore (Pulci), 100-102

Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 92, 98-99

Mortier, Alfred, 152n

Muret, Marc Antoine, (Muretus), 41, 50, 179

Muzio, 161-62

Mystère, 133, 134, 135

Mythologiae (Conti), 23

Mythology, 23, 77, 87, 147, 198

Naenia (Pontano), 66

Narratio, 60, 64, 220

Narrative, prose, 190-222

Nativity (York), 137

Navagero, 67, 170

Nemesianus, 87

Neo-Platonists, 7, 20

Nepos, Cornelius, 93

Nicoli, Nicolao, 12

“Nizolian paper books,” 46

Novella, 14

Novelle (Bandello), 190-94, 198-99

Observations on Petrarch (Alunno), 31

Observations on the Vernacular (Dolce), 30

Ode to Michel de l’Hospital (Ronsard), 73

Ode to the King on the Peace (Ronsard), 73

Odes, Pindaric, 72 ff.

Odyssey (Homer), 185

Old Wives’ Tale (Peele), 152

Oratio in expositione Homeri (Poliziano), 22

Orationes clarorum virorum, 40

Orationes obscurorum virorum, 40n

Orations, 39, 40, 41, 61

Orator (Cicero), 44, 45

Orfeo (Poliziano), 147

Orlando furioso (Ariosto), 111-23, 142, 168

Orlando innamorato (Boiardo), 93, 102-11

Ovid, 23, 58, 65, 71, 72, 79, 86, 87, 160, 174, 180, 181, 185

Padelford, F. M., 171n

Pagan terms used for Christian religion, 49

Pageantry, 87, 133

Paladini di Francia, I, 100

Pantagruel (Rabelais), 207, 211

Paradise Lost (Milton), 132

Parison, 200

Parlement of Foules (Chaucer), 70

Parody, in Rabelais, 204

Paromoion, 200

Partenio, Bernardino, 169-71, 188

Partitiones oratoriae (Brocardo), 63

Pastoral, 78-90, 146-54

Pastor fido, Il (Guarini), 148 ff.

Patrizzi, Francesco, 61, 184

Peele, 152, 153

Peletier, Jacques, 163-64

Pellissier, Georges, 186

Périon, 33

Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure, A (Pettie), 199

Petrarch, 5, 6, 13, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37, 60, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 82, 87, 114, 161, 162, 168, 170, 177, 179, 188, 222, 237

Petrus Comestor, 10

Pettie, William, 199

Pharmaceutria, 58, 81

Pico, 170

Piers Plowman, 131

Pilgrim’s Progress, 52

Pindar, 71, 72, 79, 168, 179

Pindarics, 72 ff.

Plantin, Christophe, 9

Plato, 7, 20, 25, 26, 43, 44, 62, 63, 165, 178, 179, 226

Platonic dialogue, 43, 61

Platonism, 25, 61

Plattard, J., 210n, 211n, 212n

Plautus, 58, 134, 147, 151

Plays, sacred, 134-37

Pléiade, 32, 37, 65, 69, 70, 71, 74, 119, 163, 175, 183, 186, 204

Pliny, 26, 198

Plutarch, 23, 63, 140, 179, 208, 238

Poema eroico (Tasso), 176

Poetic, confusion with rhetoric, 15, 188

Poetic (Aristotle), 15, 25, 158, 164, 176, 189, 238

Poetica (Scaliger), 4, 171-75

Poetica (Trissino), 67, 158

Poetica dialogus (Fracastoro), 162

Poetica di Francesco Patrici ..., 184

Poetica di Jason Denores, 185

Poetics, sixteenth-century, 155-89

Politics, discussions on, 223-32

Poliziano, 22, 41, 47-49, 50, 57, 87, 166, 226

Pollio (Vergil), 81

Pontano, 58, 66, 72, 170, 179

Pontus and the Fair Sidoine, 9, 95

Porcari, Stefano, 221

Porcie (Garnier), 139

Praelectio, 41, 47, 50

Preëminence of the French language (Étienne), 34

Principe (Macchiavelli), 223

Printers, 9

Printing, effect on literary progress, 5, 9, 30, 231

Priscian, 10

Project du livre entitulé De la précellence du langage françois (Étienne), 34

Pronuntiatio, 54

Propertius, 87

Prose (Bembo), 28

Prose forms, imitation of, 39-64

Prose narrative, 190-222

Prosopopoeia, 40

Prothalamion (Spenser), 74

Provençal, 28, 36, 66

Proverbia (Alain de Lille), 10

Publishers, 9, 13

Pulci, Luigi, 100-102, 109

Puttenham, 182, 183

Quintilian, 15, 47, 53, 55, 62, 63, 163, 164, 236n, 238

Rabelais, François, 22, 25n, 37, 202-13, 239

Ragionamenti della lingua toscana (Tomitano), 59

Raphael, 29

Ratio studiorum, 64

Religion, in Tasso and Spenser, 123, 124

Rerum scoticarum historia (Buchanan), 216

Retorica, Della (Patrizzi), 61

Retorica, La (Cavalcanti), 63

Rhetoric, confusion of poetic with, 15;

of Hermogenes, 188;

recovery of Cicero’s works on, 44;

Renaissance preoccupation with, 41

Rhetoric (Aristotle), 62, 63

Rhetoric (Soarez), 64

Rhetorica (Joannes Caesarius), 55

Rhetorica (George of Trebizond), 53

Rhetorica ad Herennium, 10, 45, 63

Rhetorics, 53-64

Rhétoriques, 68

Rhétoriqueurs, 65, 68

Rhythm, English tradition of, 180

Ricci, Bartolomeo, 40, 40n, 50, 57

Richard III (More), 217-20, 226

Richard III (Shakspere), 146

Riches of the Vernacular, The (Alunno), 31

Rime diverse del Mutio Iustinopolitano ... (Muzio), 161-62

Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 93

Robinson, Ralph, 226

Romance, 91-132;

Arthurian cycle in Malory, 98;

Carolingian cycle, 100, 101, 124;

Greek, 7, 90, 179, 188;

separate romances, 95-98

Roman de la Rose, 70

Romantic contrast, 91-95

Ronsard, Pierre de, 10, 21, 23, 34, 35, 65, 67, 71-75, 77, 113, 119, 163, 175, 179, 188, 238

Round Table stories, 98, 108

Rouville, 13

Ruddiman, Thomas, 230n

Ruskin, John, 62

Rustic and pastoral comedy, 146-54

Ruzzante (Angelo Beolco), 150 ff.

Sacred plays, 133-37

Sacre rappresentazioni, 134

Sallust, 18, 58

Samson Agonistes (Milton), 144

Sannazaro, Jacopo, 83-87, 165, 170, 179

Sansovino, Francesco, 40

Sappho, 87

Satire, of Rabelais, 207

Scaliger, Joseph, 137, 138, 188, 216

Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 4, 23, 171-75, 179

Scève, Maurice, 13

Schemata, 200

Scholars, gentlemen, 187

Scholemaster (Ascham), 38n

Scotorum historiae (Boece), 216

Secunda Pastorum, 137, 150

Secundus, Joannes, 66, 72

Seneca, 10, 21, 87, 133, 134, 137, 142, 144, 145, 146, 158, 159, 165, 166, 179, 234, 238

Sententiae, 221

Shakspere, 145, 146, 147, 150, 153, 196

Shaksperian sonnet, 68

Shepherd’s Calendar (Spenser), 88-90

Sidney, Sir Philip, 46, 77, 89, 90, 178-80, 181, 188, 189, 202

Sidonius, 10, 188

Silius Italicus, 174, 188

Six Livres de la république, Les, (Bodin), 230

Skelton, 37, 67, 202

Smith, G. Gregory, 180, 182

Soarez, 64

Solerti, Angelo, 87, 176

Sonnet, 66, 68, 77

Sophistic, 21, 40, 53, 55, 188, 200

Sophocles, 20, 21, 61, 142, 144, 165

Spagnolo, Baptista (Mantuan), 82, 88, 89, 180

Speculum (Vincent of Beauvais), 10

Spenser, 9, 13, 14, 24, 37, 73, 74, 75, 77, 88-91, 111, 123, 127-32, 152, 180, 181, 183

Speroni, Sperone, 26, 43, 59, 60

Sprague, Arthur C., 183n

Statius, 10, 47, 87, 142, 174, 185, 188

Status, 54

Stephen of Tournay, 42n

Stoer, Jacobus, 228

Story-tellers, street, 100, 101

Story-telling, see Tales

Strowski, F., 233n

Style, literary preoccupation with, 18, 29, 52, 137

Suppositi, I (Ariosto), 147

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, see Howard, Henry

Tacitus, 41, 50, 213, 214, 223

Tales, 190-202

Tamburlaine (Marlowe), 146

Tasso, 7, 30, 52, 87, 91, 123-27, 148, 150, 153, 176-78, 184, 185, 189, 238

Tatius, see Achilles Tatius

Tennyson, 93

Terence, 58, 134, 147, 170

Theocritus, 58, 79, 81, 86, 87, 88, 173

Theodulus, 82

Thesaurus, 46

Three styles, 15, 165, 166, 177

Thucydides, 21, 63, 213, 214

Tibullus, 87

Timone (Boiardo), 93

Tobias (Matthieu de Vendôme), 10

Tolomei, Claudio, 40

Tomitano, Bernardino, 59

Tournes, Jean de, 163

Towneley Plays, Secunda Pastorum, 137, 150

Tragedy, 133, 134, 137-45

Tragicomedy, 133, 142, 148

Trattato della imitatione (Camillo), 50

Trimerone (Patrizzi), 184

Trionfi (Petrarch), 168

Trissino, Giovan Giorgio, 67, 158, 159, 177

Troade, La (Garnier), 141

Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 15, 24, 96, 122

Turnebus, 137

Tuscan, 28, 30

Tusser, 181

Urbium dicta Maximilianum (Caviceo), 40

Utopia (More), 226

Valla, Lorenzo, 8, 19

Varro, 58

Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, 186, 188, 189

Venatio (Adrian), 24

Vérard, Antoine, 68

Vergil, 18, 26, 30, 53, 56, 58, 63, 65, 71, 72, 79, 80, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88, 96, 98, 110, 114, 122, 123, 155, 156, 157, 160, 162, 163, 165, 166, 170, 173, 174, 177, 179, 181, 236, 238;

Aeneid, 102, 104, 114, 121, 126, 127, 165, 185

Vernaculars, 5, 17, 27-38, 68-78

Verse, English discussion of, 180-84

Verse narrative, medieval, 7, 10, 91, 96

Vespasiano, 12

Vida, Marco Girolamo, 155-58, 163, 170, 172

Villon, 10, 68

Vincent of Beauvais, 10

Vinea, Gabriel, 13

Vittorino, 210

Vives, Juan Luis, 54, 210

Vopiscus, 50

Webbe, William, 180, 183

Weston, G. B., 100n

Wiat, Sir Thomas, 13, 67

Wilson, Thomas, 62

Witherspoon, A. M., 144n

Wolff, Samuel Lee, 202n

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, see Wiat, Sir Thomas

Xenophon, 93

York Plays, Nativity, 137

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · In H. Chamard, Les Origines de la poésie française de la Renaissance (Paris, 1920), p. 256.Note 2 · É. Egger, L’Hellénisme en France (Paris, 1869), pp. 358-359; see Monnier, II, 134 for modern estimate of Renaissance Greek texts.Note 4 · Egger, p. 398.Note 7 · Probably the source of Rabelais’s Abbey of Thelème. He had read the book.Note 9 · Edited by Louis Humbert, Paris, 1914.Note 10 · Sir John Cheke, however, spoke as a scholar when he wrote to Hoby: “I am of opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, vnmiNote 1 · Parodied by Orationes obscurorum virorum (before 1515), which was part of the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn controversy.Note 2 · This is the exercise called by the ancients declamatio. See ARP (Ancient Rhetoric and Poetic) and a letter of Erasmus, May 1, 1506.Note 3 · Bartholomaei Riccii De imitatione libri tres (Venice, 1545), folio 38 verso. See below, Chapter III, Sect. 3.Note 5 · Ep. 221 in Migne’s Patrologia latina (Vol. 199, p. 247), which dates it 1167; Ep. 223, p. 389, in the collection of the letters of Gerbert, Note 8 · Minturno, Arte poetica, is mere catechism. Perionius hardly achieves dialogue at all; his interlocutors merely interrupt.Note 3 · Edited by G. B. Weston (Bari, 2 vols.).Note 5 · On tragicomedy, see H. C. Lancaster, The French Tragicomedy, Its Origins and Development from 1552 to 1628 (Baltimore, 1907).Note 6 · For Garnier in England, see A. M. Witherspoon, The Influence of Robert Garnier on Elizabethan Drama (New Haven, 1924).Note 8 · “Politian was in 1471, at the request of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, despatched to Mantua by Lorenzo de’ Medici to prepare an entertainment Note 10 · Alfred Mortier, Un Dramaturge populaire ... Ruzzante. Œuvres compl. traduites pour la première fois (Paris, 1926).Note 6 · References are to the second edition of 1581. See also F. M. Padelford, Select Translations from Scaliger’s Poetics (New York, 1905).Note 8 · See H. B. Charlton, Castelvetro’s Theory of Poetry (Manchester, 1913).Note 9 · Lodge’s feebler Defence of Poetry (1579) has little other interest than the historical, i.e., as a reply to Gosson’s attack on the stage.Note 12 · Gregory Smith, II, 356-384; Arthur Colby Sprague, Samuel Daniel, Poems and a Defence of Ryme (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1930).Note 16 · But Vauquelin with Tasso bids poets leave pagan myth for Christian themes, though perhaps he refers only to subject; and he recognizes the pNote 18 · D. L. Clark, Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance (New York, 1922).Note 2 · This is inferred from a commendatory letter of Bartolomeo Cavalcanti prefixed to this fourth (1580) edition.Note 3 · For editions and translations, see Louis Berthé de Besaucèle, J.-B. Giraldi (thesis at the University of Aix-en-Provence, Paris, 1920), pp. Note 6 · Samuel Lee Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (New York, Columbia University Press, 1912).Note 8 · H. Brown, Rabelais in English Literature (Harvard Press, 1933), p. 19.Note 9 · Cf. Budé, Chapter I, for Renaissance complacency.Note 11 · J. Plattard, François Rabelais (Paris, 1932), p. 194.Note 12 · Ibid., p. 140.Note 14 · Plattard, p. 117.Note 4 · The fourth edition, cited here, by Gabriel Cartier, 1599. Meantime Bodin had published in 1586 a revised edition in Latin, De re publica libNote 5 · Edition cited Edinburgh (Freebairn), 1715, Opera omnia, ed. Thomas Ruddiman, Vol. I.Note 6 · See F. Strowski, Montaigne (Paris, 1931).Note 8 · This is the doctrine of Quintilian, whom he quotes. ARP.
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