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

[193] Castelvetro, Poetica, p. 534. Cf. Boileau, Art Poét. iii. 45.

[194] Castelvetro, Poetica, p. 179.

[195] Ibid. pp. 534, 535.

[196] Other allusions to the unities, besides those already mentioned, will be found in Castelvetro, Poetica, pp. 163-165, 168-171, 191, 397, 501, 527, 531-536, 692, 697, etc.

[197] Lintilhac, in the Nouvelle Revue, lxiv. 541.

[198] Essay of Dramatic Poesy, p. 31.

[199] Poet. v. 1. Cf. Rhet. iii. 18.

[200] Trissino, ii. 120. Cf. Butcher, p. 203 sq.

[201] Trissino, ii. 127-130. Trissino seems to follow Cicero, De Orat. ii. 58 sq. It is to these Italian discussions of the ludicrous that the theory of laughter formulated by Hobbes, and after him by Addison, owes its origin. For Renaissance discussions of wit and humor before the introduction of Aristotle's Poetics, cf. the third and fourth books of Pontano's De Sermone, and the second book of Castiglione's Cortigiano.

[202] Maggi, p. 307. Cf. Hobbes, Human Nature, 1650, ix. 13.