2. The starting page for Carducci corrected from 3209 to 3206 in TOC in this html version.
3. The frontispiece mentioned in the "Full-Page Illustrations" list is missing from this html version.
4. The original text includes Greek characters. For this html version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.
5. The footnote [7] in "The Lusiads" does not refer to anything in the original text.
6. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained.