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

[397] Carducci, p. 2.

[398] Ibid. p. 6 sq.

[399] Carducci, pp. 55, 87, etc.

[400] Ibid. pp. 327, 443. Cf. Du Bellay, Défense, ii. 7.

[401] For the history of classical metres in France, cf. Egger, Hellénisme en France, p. 290 sq., and Darmesteter and Hatzfeld, Seizième Siècle en France, p. 113 sq.

[402] Estienne Pasquier, in his Recherches de la France, vii. 11, attempts to prove that the French language is capable of employing quantity in its verse, but does not decide whether quantity or rhymed verse is to be preferred.

[403] Cf. Rucktäschel, p. 24 sq., and Carducci, p. 413 sq.

[404] This academy has been made the subject of an excellent monograph by É. Fremy, L'Académie des Derniers Valois, Paris, n. d. The statutes of the academy will be found on page 39 of this work, and the letters-patent granted to it by Charles IX. on page 48.

[405] Défense, ii. 11.

[406] Art Poét. i. 3.