HISTORIES OF SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS
Crescimbeni, Istoria della volgar Poesia, 1730. Quadrio, Della Storia e della regione d’ogni Poesia, 1739-52. Standard histories long out of print, but to be found in all good public libraries.—Muratori, Della perfetta Poesia, 1821. Characterised at p. 295.—Ruth, Geschichte der italienischen Poesie, 1844-47.—Loise, Histoire de la Poésie en Italie, 1895.—Carducci, Studi Letterari, 1880. Valuable criticisms on various periods of Italian literature.—An excellent anthology of the dicta of modern Italian critics has been compiled by Morandi, Antologia, &c., 1893.