CHAPTER XVI.

HISTORY OF POLITE LITERATURE IN PROSE FROM 1550 TO 1600.

Italian Writers 369 Casa 369 Tasso 370 Firenzuola 370 Character of Italian Prose 370 Italian Letter Writers 370 Davanzati’s Tacitus 371 Jordano Bruno 371 French Writers--Amyot 371 Montaigne; Du Vair 371 Satire Menippée 372 English Writers 372 Ascham 372 Euphues of Lilly 373 Its Popularity 373 Sydney’s Arcadia 374 His Defence of Poesie 374 Hooker 374 Character of Elizabethan Writers 374 State of Criticism 375 Scaliger’s Poetics 375 His Preference of Virgil to Homer 375 His Critique on Modern Latin Poets 376 Critical Influence of the Academics 376 Dispute of Caro and Castelvetro 377 Castelvetro on Aristotle’s Poetics 377 Severity of Castelvetro’s Criticism 377 Ercolano of Varchi 378 Controversy about Dante 378 Academy of Florence 378 Salviati’s Attack on Tasso 379 Pinciano’s Art of Poetry 379 French Treatises of Criticism 379 Wilson’s Art of Rhetorique 379 Gascoyne; Webbe 380 Puttenham’s Art of Poesie 380 Sydney’s Defence of Poesy 380 Novels of Bandello 380 Of Cinthio 381 Of the Queen of Navarre 381 Spanish Romances of Chivalry 381 Diana of Monte-Mayor 382 Novels in the Picaresque Style 382 Guzman d’Alfarache 382 Las Guerras de Granada 383 Sydney’s Arcadia 383 Its Character 383 Inferiority of other English Fictions 384