[303] Tiraboschi, vii. 1559.

[304] Several similar extracts from Italian comic prologues may be found in Symonds, v. 533 sq.

[305] Foffano, p. 154 sq.

[306] Poetica, p. 32.

[307] Paradossi, Venetia, 1545, ii. 29.

[308] Opere, ii. 315 (Williams's translation).

[309] Cf. the diverse opinions of Tiraboschi, viii. 516, and Hallam, Lit. of Europe, pt. iii. ch. 7.


Part Second

LITERARY CRITICISM IN FRANCE