P. 546. Denina. This author is a good instance of the things which the reader sometimes rather reproachfully demands, when the writer would only too fain have supplied them. I could write more than a page with satisfaction on Denina’s _Discorso sopra le Vicende della Litteratura_, which, rather surprisingly, underwent its second edition in Glasgow at the Foulis press (1763), and which not only deals at large with the subject in an interesting manner, but accepts the _religio loci_ by dealing specially with _Scottish_ literature. But, once more, this is for a fourth volume—or even a fifth—things belonging to the Thinkable-Unthinkable. P. 554, l. 3. For the _Paragone_ see vol. iii. under Conti, Antonio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS. BOOK IV. RENAISSANCE CRITICISM. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—ERASMUS. PAGE The Critical starting-point of the Renaissance. 3 Influences at work: General 4 Particular 5 Weakness of Vernaculars 6 Recovery of Ancient Criticism 6 Necessity of defence against Puritanism 7 The line of criticism resultant 7 Not necessarily anti-mediæval 8 But classical 9 And anti-Puritan 9 Erasmus 10 The _Ciceronianus_ 11 The _Colloquies_ 13 The _Letters_ 15 Distribution of the Book 17 CHAPTER II. EARLY ITALIAN CRITICS.