General Parallel of Italian and

English Poetry

Decline of Latin Poetry in Italy

Compensated in other Countries

Lotichius.

Collections of Latin Poetry by

Gruter.

Italian Tragedy

Pastoral Drama

Spanish Drama

Aminta of Tasso

Pastor Fido of Guarini

Italian Opera

The National Taste revives in the

Italian Writers.

Casa

Tasso

HISTORY OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE, FROM 1550 тo 1600.

Marlowe's Jew of Malta

And Faustus

His Edward II.

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Plays whence Henry VI. was taken 171

Peele

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CHAPTER VI.

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English Stage.

Gammar Gurton's Needle

Gorboduc of Sackville

Preference given to the irregular

Form

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Characters of some Gallo-Latin

Poets.

Sammarthanus
Belgic Poets

Scots Poets; Buchanan

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Its Machinery

Its Language

Romeo and Juliet

CHAPTER VII.

HISTORY OF POLITE LITERATURE IN PROSE, FROM 1550 to 1600.

Firenzuola

Character of Italian Prose

Italian Letter Writers

. 147

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Greene

Other Writers of this Age

Heywood's Woman killed with

Kindness

175

William Shakspeare

. 175

His first Writings for the Stage. 176

Comedy of Errors

. 177

Two Gentlemen of Verona.

. 178

Love's Labour Lost

Taming of the Shrew

Midsummer Night's Dream

. 170

. 170

Its Plot.

Its Beauties and Blemishes

The Characters.

The Language

Second Period of Shakspeare

The Historical Plays .

Merchant of Venice

As You Like It

Jonson's Every Man in his Hu-

mour

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Davanzati's Tacitus

Jordano Bruno.

French Writers; Amyot
Montaigne; Du Vair
Satire Menippée
English Writers
Ascham

Euphues of Lilly

Its Popularity
Sidney's Arcadia

His Defence of Poesie

Vieta

His Discoveries

Geometers of this Period

Joachim Rhæticus

Copernican Theory

Tycho Brahé

His System

Gregorian Calendar
Optics

Mechanics

Statics of Stevinus

.

Hydrostatics

Gilbert on the Magnet

Gesner's Zoology

rupeds

Belon

Hooker.

198

Character of Elizabethan Writers 198

State of Criticism

Scaliger's Poetics

199

. 200

His Preference of Virgil to Homer 200

His Critique on Modern Latin

.

Poets

. 202

Critical Influence of the Academies 202

Dispute of Caro and Castelvetro . 203

Castelvetro on Aristotle's Poetics 204

Severity of Castelvetro's Criticism 204

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CHAPTER VIII.

HISTORY OF PHYSICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, FROM 1500 TO 1600.

Salviani and Rondelet's Ichthyology 237

Tartaglia and Cardan

Algebra of Pelletier

Aldrovandus

238

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Record's Whetstone of Wit

Botany; Turner

239

Maranta; Botanical Gardens

239

Gesner

240

Dodoens

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Its Character by Cuvier

Gesner's Arrangement

His Additions to known Quad-

232

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234

Ercolano of Varchi

Controversy about Dante

Academy of Florence

Salviati's attack on Tasso

Pinciano's Art of Poetry

235

237

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Gerard's Herbal

Anatomy; Fallopius.

Eustachius

Coiter

Columbus

Circulation of the Blood

Medicinal Science

. 218

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Syriac Version of New Testament 247

Hebrew Critics

248

248

Its study in England

249

Arabic begins to be studied

Collection of Voyages by Ramusio 250

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE IN EUROPE, FROM 1600 TO 1650.

PART III.

ON THE LITERATURE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH

CENTURY.

CHAPTER II.

HISTORY OF THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE IN EUROPE, FROM 1600 To 1650.

Temporal Supremacy of Rome 298

Contest with Venice

€ 299

Father Paul Sarpi

300

History of Council of Trent

Gallican Liberties. - Richer

Perron