Renaissance in Italy Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Renaissance in Italy novel. A total of 208 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Renaissance in Italy.Volume 1.by John Addington Symonds.PREFACE.This volume is the First
Renaissance in Italy.Volume 1.by John Addington Symonds.PREFACE.This volume is the First Part of a work upon the 'Renaissance in Italy.'The Second Part treats of the Revival of Learning. The Third, of the Fine Arts. The Fourth Part, in two volum
- 201 Soon after 1600 it became manifest that lapse of years and ecclesiastical intolerance had rendered Italy nearly dest.i.tute of great men. Her famous sons were all either dead, murdered or exiled; reduced to silence by the scythe of time or by the Roman &#
- 202 Fur._ i. 42, 43, and xxiv. 80) on which it has been modeled, we shall perceive how much Guarini lost in force by not writing with his eye upon the object or with the authenticity of inward vision, but with a self-conscious effort to improve by artifices a
- 203 Granted his own conditions, granted the emptiness of moral and intellectual substance in the man and in his age, we are compelled to acknowledge that his literary powers were rich and various. Few writers, at the same time, ill.u.s.trate the vices of deca
- 204 One example will serve as well as many to ill.u.s.trate the false att.i.tude a.s.sumed by Chiabrera when he posed as a new Pindar in the midst of seventeenth-century Italians. I will select the Ode to Don Cesare d'Este. There is something patheticall
- 205 The composers, to advance another step in the a.n.a.lysis of this strange medley, took particular delight in combining different sets of words, melodies of widely diverse character, antagonistic rhythms and divergent systems of accentuation in a single pi
- 206 These profound sentences are the epitaph, not only of imitative poetry, but also of such eclectic art as the Caracci inst.i.tuted. Very little of it bears examination now. We regard it with listlessness or loathing. We turn from it without regret. We cann
- 207 [Footnote 230: Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio (1569-1609).][Footnote 231: For the historian of manners in seventeenth-century Italy those pictures have a truly precious value, as they are executed with such pa.s.sion as to raise them above the more c
- 208 II.Permanence and h.o.m.ogeneity are not to be predicated of 'anything that's merely ours and mortal.' We have missed the whole teaching of history if we wail aloud because Greek and Roman culture succ.u.mbed to barbarism, out of which medi