Note 375 — Chapter IV · MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Il Cortigiano, lib. ii. cap. 4 sqq., ed. Baude di Vesme, Florence, 1854, pp. 124 sqq. For the explanation of wit as the effect of contrast, though not clearly put, see ibid. cap. lxxiii. p. 136.