The beginnings 19 Savonarola 20 Pico, &c. 22 Politian 23 The _Manto_ 24 The _Ambra_ and _Rusticus_ 25 The _Nutricia_ 25 Their merits 26 And danger 26 Petrus Crinitus: his _De Poetis Latinis_ 27 Augustinus Olmucensis: his _Defence of Poetry_ 27 Paradoxical attacks on it by Cornelius Agrippa, Landi, Berni 28 Vida 29 Importance of the _Poetics_ 30 Analysis of the piece 30 Essential poverty of its theory 34 Historical and symptomatic significance 34 The alleged appeal to reason and Nature 35 The main stream started 37 Trissino 38 Division of his _Poetic_ 39 His critical value 40 Editors, &c., of the _Poetics_ 41 Pazzi 41 Robortello, Segni, Maggi, Vettori 42