CHAPTER XXIV.

CONCLUSION.

In this History of Italian Literature I have endeavoured, to the best of my ability, to trace its progress and development. That it has progressed, cannot, I think, be denied. Poetry has freed itself from conventionality. Prose has given birth to works which former ages could not even have conceived. Compare the magnificent creations of Gabriele d'Annunzio to the stories of Bandello and the _Novelline_ of MASACCIO. The advance is prodigious. Much, however, remains to be done. Italy has not yet given the world a philosopher so profound as Kant or Schopenhauer, or a tragic poet so great as Sophocles or Shakespeare. There is still room for an Italian Burns, for a really original and striking poet in dialect. The Sicilian GIOVANNI MELI is, perhaps, the nearest approach to such a writer, indeed, he is the most genuine poet that Sicily has ever produced. There is every reason to hope that the free and united Italy of the present will see writers as brilliant as those of the enslaved and divided Italy of the past.

THE END.

INDEX.

A

Addison Adriani Alamanni, Luigi Aleardi Alexander VII, Pope Alfieri Algarotti Amaltei, the Brothers Amicis, Edmondo de Annunzio, Gabriele d' Ariosto

B

Balbo, Cesare Bandello Barett Bartoli, Daniele Beccaria Belcari Bellotti Bembo, Cardinal Bentivoglio, Cardinal Berchet, Giovanni Berni, Francesco Bertola Bettinelli Bevilacqua, Cardinal Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccalini, Trajano Boileau Bojardo Boniface VIII, Pope Borghi, Giuseppe Botti Binda, Madame Rachele Browning Bruno, Giordano Bunsen Byron, Lord

C

Campanella Campbell, Lord Cantù, Cesare Caro, Annibal Carducci, Giosuè Carlyle Carrer, Luigi Casa, Monsignor G. della Castelvetro Casti Castiglione, Baldassarre Catherine, Saint, of Siena Cattignano, Giovanni, da Catullus Cavalcanti Cavour Cesari, Antonio Cesarotti, Melchiorre Chaucer Chiabrera, Gabriele Christina, Queen of Sweden Claudian Clement VII, Pope Clement VIII, Pope Clement XI, Pope Clement XII, Pope Colonna, Vittoria Compagni, Dino Corneille Cossa, Pietro Costanzo, Angelo di Crescimbeni Crudeli, Tommaso

D

Dante Dati Davanzati Davila Delfino, Cardinal Dickens Dryden Duse, Eleonora

E

Edwardes, Charles Eleonora, Princess of Ferrara

F

Fairfax Filangieri Filicaia Firenzuola Fortiguerra, Niccolò Foscolo, Ugo Fracastoro Frederick the Great Frugoni

G

Galilei, Galileo Gambara, Veronica Garibaldi Giordana, Tullio Giordani, Pietro Giusti, Giuseppe Goethe Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Carlo Gozzi, Gasparo Grossi, Tommaso Guarnii, Battista Guerrini, Olindo Guicciardini Guidi, Alessandro Guinicelli

H

Hallam Holderness, Lord Homer Horace Huyghens

J

Julius II, Pope

K

Keats, John

L

Latini, Brunetto Leo X, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Leopardi Lippi, Lorenzo Lucan Lucretius

M

Macaulay, Lord Machiavelli Maffei, Alessandro Maffei, Scipione Magalotti Maggi, Carlo Maria Magliabecchi, Antonio Malaspini, Celio Malherbe Manfredi, Eustachio Manin Manso Manzoni, Alessandro Marchetti Marchionni, Carlotta Marino Maroncelli, Pietro Mascheroni Masaccio Mazzini Meli, Giovanni Menzini Metastasio Milton Molière Montaigne Montesquieu Monti Muratori Murtola

N

Napoleon Nardi, Jacopo Negri, Ada Nicolini Niebuhr Nota, Alberto

P

Pallavicino, Cardinal Panzacchi, Enrico Parini, Giuseppe Pascal Passavanti, Jacopo Passeroni, Gian Carlo Pellico, Silvio Petrarch Pindemonte, Ippolito Pius VI, Pope Pius VII, Pope Pius IX, Pope Platen Pope, Alexander Prati, Giovanni Poliziano, Angelo da Polo, Marco Porzio, Camillo Pulci

R

Kacan Rapisardi Redi, Francesco Rienzi Rinuccini Ristori Rolli, Paolo Ronsard Rosa, Salvator Rossetti, Gabriele Rota, Bernardino Rucellai

S

Sacchetti, Franco Salvini (Actor) Salvini (Grammarian) Sannazzaro Sarpi, Fra Paolo Savioli, Ludovico Schopenhauer Scott Segneri, Father Paul Segni, Bernardo Serao, Matilde Serrassi, Abbé Shakespeare Shelley Sixtus V, Pope Solerti, Angelo Somers, Lord Sophocles Spolverini, Marquis Stampa, Gaspara Stella (Publisher) Straparola

T

Tasso, Bernardo Tasso, Torquato Tassoni, Alessandro Tennyson Testi, Fulvio Tiraboschi Trissino

V

Vanini Varano, Alfonso Varchi, Benedetto Vasari Viani, Prospero Victor Emmanuel Vida Villani, Filippo Villani, Giovanni Villani, Matteo Vinci, Leonardo da Virgil Visconti, Galleazzo Vittorelli Viviani Voltaire

W

Wordsworth

Z

Zanella, Abbé Zappi, Faustina, daughter of the painter, Carlo Maratta Zappi, Felice, husband of Faustina