Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) / The Revival of Learning

by John Addington Symonds

[206] Life of Poggio, p. 423.

[207] Opera Omnia, pp. 155-164.

[208] P. 422.

[209] Ibid. p. 423.

[210] See the correspondence between Filippo Maria and Poggio, Opp. pp. 333-358. Letter to Cosimo, p. 339.

[211] 'The World, the Stammering Simpleton, the Execrable Poet, and the Nobody.' See Auree Francisci Philelphi Poete Oratorisque Celeberrimi Satyre. Paris, 1508. Passim.

[212] Opp. Omn. pp. 164-187. The first invective is the most venomous, and deserves to be read in the original. The last, entitled 'Invectiva Excusatoria et Reconciliatoria,' is amusing from its tone of sulky and sated exhaustion.

[213] Life of Poggio, pp. 263-272, 354. Vita di Filelfo.

[214] The language of the arena was used by these literary combatants. Thus Valla, in the exordium of his Antidote, describes his weapon of attack in this sentence:—'Hæc est mea fusana, quandoquidem gladiator a gladiatore fieri cogor, et ea duplex et utraque tridens,' p. 9.

[215] See Rosmini, Vita di Guarino da Verona, vol. ii. p. 96.