The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Chapter 33

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DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE IN MOVEMENT.

Æneas Sylvius and others 349

Conventional bucolic poetry from the time of Petrarch 350

Genuine poetic treatment of country life 351

Battista Mantovano, Lorenzo Magnifico, Pulci 352

Angelo Poliziano 353

Man, and the conception of humanity 354

Pico della Mirandola on the dignity of man 354