[23] Poetic, ch. I, art. 1.

[24] Poetica trad. preface.

[25] Pensieri diversi, bk. x. ch. 18.

[26] La Ménardière, Poétique, Paris, 1640; Le Bossu, Traité du poème épique, Paris, 1675.

[27] Borinski, Poet. d. Renaiss. p. 26.

[28] Hyeron. Frascatorii Opera, Venetian edition, Giunti, 1574, pp. 112-120.

[29] Poet., ed. cit. i. 1; ii. 1; iii. 7; v. I (pp. 64, 66, 71-72, 208, 580).

[30] Annotationi, preface.

[31] Philosophia antiqua poetica, Madrid, 1596 (reprinted Valladolid 1894).

[32] Francesco Patrici, Della poetica, la Deca disputata, "in which by history, by reason, by authority of the greatest worthies of antiquity, is shown the falsity of the most received opinions concerning Poetry down to our own day." Ferrara, 1586.