240
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Imaginary speeches
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241
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Decline of eloquence
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242
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CHAPTER VIII. LATIN TREATISES AND HISTORY.
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Value of Latin
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243
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Researches on the Middle Ages: Blondus
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245
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Histories in Italian; their antique spirit
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246
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CHAPTER IX. GENERAL LATINISATION OF CULTURE.
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Ancient names
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250
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Latinised social relations
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251
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Claims of Latin to supremacy
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252
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Cicero and the Ciceronians
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253
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Latin conversation
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254
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CHAPTER X. MODERN LATIN POETRY.
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Epic poems on ancient history: The ‘Africa’
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258
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Mythic poetry
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259
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Christian epics: Sannazaro
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260
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Poetry on contemporary subjects
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261
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Introduction of mythology
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262
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Didactic poetry: Palingenius
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263
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Lyric poetry and its limits
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264
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Odes on the saints
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265
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Elegies and the like
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266
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The epigram
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267
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CHAPTER XI. FALL OF THE HUMANISTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
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The accusations and the amount of truth they contained
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272
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Misery of the scholars
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277
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Type of the happy scholar
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278
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Pomponius Laetus
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279
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The Academies
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280
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PART IV. THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN.
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CHAPTER I. JOURNEYS OF THE ITALIANS.
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Columbus
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286
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Cosmographical purpose in travel
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287
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CHAPTER II. NATURAL SCIENCE IN ITALY.
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Empirical tendency of the nation
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289
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Dante and astronomy
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290
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Attitude of the Church towards natural science
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290
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Influence of Humanism
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291
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Botany and gardens
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292
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Zoology and collections of foreign animals
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293
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Human menagerie of Ippolito Medici
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296
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CHAPTER III. THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL BEAUTY.
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Landscapes in the Middle Ages
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299
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Petrarch and his ascents of mountains
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301
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Uberti’s ‘Dittamondo’
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302
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The Flemish school of painting
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302
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Æneas Sylvius and his descriptions
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303
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Nature in the poets and novelists
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305
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CHAPTER IV. THE DISCOVERY OF MAN.—SPIRITUAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY.
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Popular psychological ground-work. The temperaments
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309
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Value of unrhymed poetry
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310
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Value of the Sonnet
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310
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Dante and the ‘Vita Nuova’
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312
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The ‘Divine Comedy’
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312
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Petrarch as a painter of the soul
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314
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Boccaccio and the Fiammetta
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315
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Feeble development of tragedy
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315
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