Transcriber's Note: This e-book was prepared from a 1960 G.P. Putnam's Sons reprint of the 1900 edition of The Revival of Learning, originally published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, as Volume II of John Addington Symonds's Renaissance in Italy series. The other volumes in the series are [The Age of the Despots] (Volume I), [The Fine Arts] (Volume III), [Italian Literature, Part I] (Volume IV), [Italian Literature, Part II] (Volume V), and [The Catholic Reaction, Parts I and II] (Volumes VI and VII). Links in this e-book to these and other works on Project Gutenberg are not guaranteed to work in perpetuity.
Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Other errors are indicated by red dotted underlining with a pop-up Transcriber's Note. A [list] of these notes can be found at the end of this e-book. Older spellings of Italian names (e.g. "Lionardo" for "Leonardo") have been retained as they appear in the original.
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JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
The Revival
of Learning
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At tibi fortassis, si, quod mens sperat et optat, Es post me victura diu, meliora supersunt Secula; non omnes veniet lethaeus in annos Iste sopor; poterunt, discussis forte tenebris, Ad purum priscumque jubar remeare nepotes. Tunc Helicona novâ revirentem stirpe videbis, Tunc lauros frondere sacras; tunc alta resurgent Ingenia atque animi dociles, quibus ardor honesti Pieridum studii veterem geminabit amorem. Petrarchæ Africa, lib. ix |