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Extracted from the Rassegna della Letteratura Siciliana. Went to Greece and the Troad to make up his mind about the topography of the Iliad. The Life and Letters of Dr. His portrait painted by Charles Gogin, now in the National Portrait Gallery. The Authoress of the Odyssey, where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad and how the poem grew under her hands: MS. at Trapani.
It is, however, not invariably accurate, and the literary appreciations, whether original or borrowed, are seldom enlightening. Had the space occupied by these been devoted to giving references to special works, the value of the book would have been enormously increased. A. D'Ancona and O. Bacci. Manuale della letteratura italiana. 5 vols. Firenze, 1897-1900.
Went to Sicily, the first of many visits, to collect evidence in support of his theory identifying the Scheria and Ithaca of the Odyssey with Trapani and the neighbouring Mount Eryx. "L'Origine Siciliana dell' Odissea." Extracted from the Rassegna della Letteratura Siciliana. Ex Voto translated into Italian by Cavaliere Angelo Rizzetti. "Ancora sull' origine dell' Odissea."
He was one of the cui bono race, a branch of our political economists. When they showed him the Laocoön, Adrian silenced their raptures by the frigid observation, that all such things were idola antiquorum: and ridiculed the amena letteratura till every man of genius retreated from his court.
Thus, in his Storia della Letteratura italiana, ii., writes Francesco de Sanctis, and in an earlier passage he informs us that for that breed of men "in paradise itself the lover's delight was to look upon his lady Madonna and that he had no desire to go thither if he might not go in his lady's company."
Milano, 1670. GIAMMATTEO TOSCANO: Peplus Italiæ. GIROLAMO TIRABOSCHI: Storia della Letteratura Italiana. Modena, 1772. R.P. NICERON: Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres, Paris, 1745. GIOVANNI MAZZUCHELLI: Gli Scrittori d'Italia. Brescia, 1753-1763. NICOLAI ANTONII: Bibliotheca Hispana nova sive Hispanorum Scriptorum. Madrid, 1783.
Per altro il mio padre gia 36 anni in servizio di questa Corte e sapendo, che questo Arcivescovo non puo e non vuol vedere gente avanzata in eta, non lo se ne prende a core, si e messo alla letteratura per altro gia suo studio favorito.
Machiavelli seems to have only studied men in masses, or as political instruments, never as feeling and thinking personalities. See Varchi, loc. cit. See the criticisms of Ammirato and Romagnosi, quoted by Cantù, Letteratura Italiana, p. 187. I shall have to speak elsewhere of Machiavelli's comedies, occasional poems, novel of 'Belphegor, etc.
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