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

[274] Essay on Pope, 3d ed., i. 171.

[275] Arte Poetica, p. 158.

[276] Muzio, pp. 81 v., 76 v.

[277] Poet. i. 5.

[278] Pope, Essay on Criticism, 88.

[279] Viperano, author of De Poetica libri tres, Antwerp, 1579.

[280] Maranta, author of Lucullanæ Quæstiones, Basle, 1564.

[281] Three writers of the Renaissance bore this name: G. Pontano, the famous Italian humanist and Latin poet, who died in 1503; P. Pontano, of Bruges, the author of an Ars Versificatoria, published in 1520; and J. Pontanus, a Bohemian Jesuit, author of Institutiones Poeticæ, first published at Ingolstadt in 1594, and several times reprinted.

[282] Sedano, Parnaso Español, Madrid, 1774, viii. 40, 41.

[283] Cf. Berghoeffer, Opitz' Buch von der Poeterei, 1888, and Beckherrn, Opitz, Ronsard, und Heinsius, 1888. The first reference to Aristotle's Poetics, north of the Alps, is to be found in Luther's Address to the Christian Nobles of the German Nation, 1520. Schosser's Disputationes de Tragœdia, published in 1559, two years before Scaliger's work appeared, is entirely based on Aristotle's Poetics.