[264] Cf. Brunetière, p. 102 sq., and Lanson, Hist. de la Litt. fr., p. 494 sq.

[265] Lettres grecques, ed. Legrand, 1892, p. 31.

[266] "Quæcunque ab Aristotele dicta sint falsa et commentitia esse;" Bayle, Dict. s. v. Ramus, note C.

[267] Fracastoro, i. 321.

[268] Tiraboschi, vii. 1465.

[269] Maggi, dedication.

[270] In an appendix to this essay will be found an excerpt from Salviati's unpublished commentary on the Poetics, giving his judgment of the commentators who had preceded him.

[271] Tasso, xv. 20.

[272] Poet. vii. ii. 1.

[273] Hamburg. Dramat. 101-104.