[153] Vettori, p. 56 sq., and Castelvetro, Poetica, p. 117 sq.

[154] Maggi, p. 97 sq.

[155] Cf. Shelley, Defence of Poetry, p. 35, "Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of that pleasure which exists in pain," etc.

[156] Lezzioni, p. 660.

[157] Scaliger, Poet. vii. i. 3; iii. 96.

[158] Arte Poetica, p. 287.

[159] Arte Poetica, p. 77.

[160] Butcher, pp. 229, 230.

[161] Opere, v. 178.

[162] Butcher, p. 280 sq.