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

by Joel Elias Spingarn

[52] Summo, pp. 61-69.

[53] Poet. iii. 95.

[54] Poet. i. 1.

[55] Another critic of the time, Vettori, 1560, pp. 14, 93, attacks poetic prose on the ground that in Aristotle's definition of the various poetic forms, verse is always spoken of as an essential part. It is interesting to note that the phrase "poetic prose" is used, perhaps for the first time, in Minturno, Arte Poetica, 1564, p. 3, etc.

[56] Opere, x. 254. Cf. Minturno, Arte Poetica, p. 33.

[57] Poet. iii. 96.

[58] Muzio, p. 69.

[59] Giraldi Cintio, i. 61.

[60] Art Poét. iii. 50. Cf. Horace, Ars Poet. 188.

[61] Zodiac. Vitæ, i. 143.