A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance / With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism - Joel Elias Spingarn

[570] Works, iii. 473.

[571] The chapter on poetry in Peacham's Compleat Gentleman (1622) is interesting chiefly because of its indebtedness to Scaliger, who is called by Peacham (p. 91) "the prince of all learning and the judge of judgments, the divine Julius Cæsar Scaliger." This constitutes him a literary arbiter if not dictator. In the Great Assises holden in Parnassus (1645), Scaliger is proclaimed one of the lords of Parnassus, in company with Bacon, Sidney, Erasmus, Budæus, Heinsius, Vossius, Casaubon, Mascardo, Pico della Mirandola, Selden, Grotius, and others.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE CHIEF CRITICAL WORKS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Date	Italy	Date	France	Date	England
1527	Vida: De Arte Poetica.			c. 1524	Cox: Rhetoric.
1529	Trissino: Poetica, pts. i.-iv.
1535	Dolce: trans. of Horace's Ars Poetica.
1536	Pazzi: transl. of Aristotle's Poetics.
1536	Daniello: Poetica.
1539	Tolomei: Versi e Regole della Nuova Poesia.	1545	Pelletier: trans. of Horace's Ars Poetica.
1548	Robortelli: ed. of Aristotle's Poetics.	1548	Sibilet: Art Poétique.
1549	Segni: transl. of Aristotle's Poetics.	1549	Du Bellay: Défense et Illustration.
1550	Maggi: ed. of Aristotle's Poetics.			1553	Wilson: Rhetoric.
1551	Muzio: Arte Poetica.

1554	Giraldi Cintio: Discorsi.	1554	Pelletier: Art Poétique.
1559	Minturno: De Poeta.	1555	Morel: ed. of Aristotle's Poetics.
				1567	Drant: transl. of Horace's Ars Poetica.
1560	Vettori: ed. of Aristotle's Poetics.	1560	Pasquier: Recherches.
1561	Scaliger: Poetics.	1561	[Scaliger: Poetics.]	1570	Ascham: Scholemaster.
1563	Trissino: Poetica, pts. v., vi.			1575	Gascoigne: Notes of Instruction.
1564	Minturno: Arte Poetica.
1570	Castelvetro: ed. of Aristotle's Poetics.	1565	Ronsard: Abrégé de l'Art Poétique.	1579	Gosson: School of Abuse.
				1579	Lodge: Reply to Gosson.
1575	Piccolomini: ed. of Aristotle's Poetics.	1572	Jean de la Taille: preface of Saül.	1580	Harvey and Spenser: Letters.
				c. 1583	Sidney: Defence of Poesy (publ. 1595).
1579	Viperano: De Arte Poetica.	1572	Ronsard: preface of Franciade.
1586	Patrizzi: Della Poetica.			1585	James VI.: Reulis and Cautelis.
1587	T. Tasso: Discorsi dell' Arte Poetica.	1573	Jacques de la Taille: treatise on French classical metres.
				1586	Webbe: Discourse of English Poetrie.
1588	Denores: Poetica.
1597	Buonamici: Discorsi Poetici.	1598	De Laudun: Art Poétique françois.	1589	Puttenham: Arte of English Poesie.
1598	Ingegneri: Poesia Rappresentativa.
		—	Vauquelin: Art Poétique.	1591	Harington: Apologie of Poetrie.
1600	Summo: Discorsi Poetici.

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