Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) / Italian Literature, Part 1

by John Addington Symonds

[455] Sacre Rappr. iii. 416.

[456] Ibid. iii. 439.

[457] Sacre Rappr. iii. 466.

[458] The date of the former is probably 1472, of the latter 1486.

[459] Lorenzo de' Medici, b. 1448, d. 1492. Poliziano, b. 1454, d. 1494. Luigi Pulci, b. 1432, d. about 1487. Boiardo, b. about 1434, d. 1494. Sannazzaro, b. 1458, d. 1530.

[460] Machiavelli, b. 1469, d. 1527. Ariosto, b. 1474, d. 1533. Guicciardini, b. 1482, d. 1540. Bembo, b. 1470, d. 1547. Castiglione, b. 1478, d. 1529. La Casa, b. 1503, d. 1556. Pietro Aretino, b. 1492, d. 1557.

[461] See [Fine Arts], p. 183.

[462] See Revival of Learning, pp. 215 et seq.; [Fine Arts], pp. 183 et seq.

[463] It is right to say here that considerable portions of Southern Italy, the Marches of Ancona and Romagna, Piedmont and Liguria, remained outside the Renaissance movement at this period.

[464] See [Age of the Despots], pp. [277], [520], [542]; Revival of Learning, pp. 314-323; [Fine Arts], pp. 263, 387. See also [Sketches and Studies in Italy], Article on [Florence and the Medici].