CHAPTER XLIX

1400. The glory and progress of Italy while divided into many states 253

1492-1530. Her long struggle against foreign aggression is closed in servitude 253

1533-1600. Spanish domination fatal to manners, language, and literature 254

" " This evil augmented by the Academies 255

" " The Assorditi of Urbino 255

" " The influence of the Reformation, how excluded from Italian letters 257

" " The age of rhetoricians and fulsome compliment 257

" " Mathematics and engineering studied at Urbino 259

1509-1575. Federigo Comandino of Urbino 260

1544. Guidobaldo Marchese del Monte 262

1529-1591. Francesco Paciotti of Urbino 262

-1560. Gian Giacomo Leonardi of Pesaro 264

1569-1639. Muzio Oddi of Urbino 265

1553-1612. Bernardino Baldi of Urbino, his vast acquirements and numerous works 266

His Lives of Dukes of Urbino 273

1496-1576. Girolamo Muzio of Capo d'Istria, biographer of the Dukes 274

1555-1602. Federigo Bonaventura of Urbino 277