[294] Causeries du Lundi, iii. 44.
[295] Art Poét. iv. 121.
[296] Berni, p. 249.
[297] Art Poét. iii. 193. Cf. Dryden, Discourse on Satire, in Works, xiii. 23 sq.
CHAPTER VI
ROMANTIC ELEMENTS IN ITALIAN CRITICISM
In the Italian critical literature of the sixteenth century there are to be found the germs of romantic as well as classical criticism. The development of romanticism in Renaissance criticism is due to various tendencies, of ancient, of mediæval, and of modern origin. The ancient element is Platonism; the mediæval elements are Christianity, and the influence of the literary forms and the literary subject-matter of the Middle Ages; and the modern elements are the growth of national life and national literatures, and the opposition of modern philosophy to Aristotelianism.