Renaissance literary theory and practice

by Charles Sears Baldwin

[50] Alfred Mortier, Un Dramaturge populaire ... Ruzzante. Œuvres compl. traduites pour la première fois (Paris, 1926).

[51] ARP and MRP.

[52] For Aristotle’s Poetic, see ARP.

[53] For discussion of the romances, see [Chapter V]. For Giraldi’s novelle, see [Chapter VIII, 1, c].

[54] ARP.

[55] For Hermogenes, see MRP, pp. 23 ff.

[56] References are to the second edition of 1581. See also F. M. Padelford, Select Translations from Scaliger’s Poetics (New York, 1905).

[57] See above, Du Bellay, Chapter II, pp. 3, 6.

[58] See H. B. Charlton, Castelvetro’s Theory of Poetry (Manchester, 1913).

[59] Lodge’s feebler Defence of Poetry (1579) has little other interest than the historical, i.e., as a reply to Gosson’s attack on the stage.