INTRODUCTION

TO THE

LITERATURE OF EUROPE,

IN THE

FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH

CENTURIES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, F.R. A. S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ACADEMY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL
SCIENCES IN THE FRENCH

INSTITUTE.

De modo autem hujusmodi historiæ conscribendæ, illud imprimis monemus, ut
materia et copia ejus, non tantum ab historiis et criticis petatur, verum etiam
per singulas annorum centurias, aut etiam minora intervalla, seriatim libri præcipui,
qui eo temporis spatio conscripti sunt, in consilium adhibeantur; ut ex eorum non
perlectione (id enim infinitum quiddam esset), sed degustatione, et observatione
argumenti, styli, methodi, genius illius temporis literarius, veluti incantatione
quadam, a mortuis evocetur.-BACON de Augm. Scient.

Fourth Edition.

IN THREE VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1854.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

MAY 25 1961

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CONTENTS

Predominance of Aristotelian Phi-
losophy

Scholastic and genuine Aristote-

lians

Patrizzi

System of Telesio

HISTORY OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY, FROM 1550 To 1600.

Soto De Justitia
Hooker

PART II. continued.

The former Class little remembered

The others not much better known

Schools of Pisa and Padua.

Cesalpini .

Sketch of his System

Cremonini

Opponents of Aristotle

CHAPTER III.

His Theory of Natural Law

Doubts felt by others

Essays of Montaigne.

Their Characteristics

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CHAPTER IV.

HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND OF JURISPRUDENCE,

FROM 1550 TO 1600.

Jordano Bruno.

His Italian Works,-Cena de li
Ceneri.

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Bruno's other Writings

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General Character of his Philosophy 13

Sceptical Theory of Sanchez

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Logic of Aconcio

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Nizolius on the Principles of Phi-

losophy

Margarita Antoniana of Pereira

Logic of Ramus; its success

Della Causa, Principio ed Uno

Pantheism of Bruno

Writers on Morals in Italy.

In England

Bacon's Essays.

Number of Political Writers

Oppression of Governments

And Spirit generated by it

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