[248] _Ibid._ p. 95. [249] _Opere_, xi. 51. [250] _Defence_, p. 13. [251] _Poet._ v. 3. [252] _Poet._ v. 1; vi. 4. [253] _Cf._ Brunetiere, p. 53. [254] Symonds, ii. 395 _sq._ [255] Muzio, p. 94. [256] _Cf._ Dennis, _Select Works_, 1718, ii. 417 _sq._ [257] Pope, i. 167. [258] Laas, _Die Paedagogik des Johannes Sturm_, Berlin, 1872, p. 65 _sq._ [259] _Inst. Orat._ x. 2. [260] Pope, i. 165. [261] _Poet._ i. 1. [262] _Poet._ iii. 4. [263] Partenio, p. 39 _sq._ [264] _Cf._ Brunetiere, p. 102 _sq._, and Lanson, _Hist. de la Litt. fr._, p. 494 _sq._ [265] _Lettres grecques_, ed. Legrand, 1892, p. 31. [266] "Quaecunque ab Aristotele dicta sint falsa et commentitia esse;" Bayle, _Dict._ s. v. Ramus, note C. [267] Fracastoro, i. 321. [268] Tiraboschi, vii. 1465. [269] Maggi, dedication. [270] In an appendix to this essay will be found an excerpt from Salviati's unpublished commentary on the _Poetics_, giving his judgment of the commentators who had preceded him. [271] Tasso, xv. 20. [272] _Poet._ vii. ii. 1. [273] _Hamburg. Dramat._ 101-104. [274] _Essay on Pope_, 3d ed., i. 171. [275] _Arte Poetica_, p. 158. [276] Muzio, pp. 81 v., 76 v. [277] _Poet._ i. 5. [278] Pope, _Essay on Criticism_, 88. [279] Viperano, author of _De Poetica libri tres_, Antwerp, 1579. [280] Maranta, author of _Lucullanae Quaestiones_, Basle, 1564. [281] Three writers of the Renaissance bore this name: G. Pontano, the famous Italian humanist and Latin poet, who died in 1503; P. Pontano, of Bruges, the author of an _Ars Versificatoria_, published in 1520; and J. Pontanus, a Bohemian Jesuit, author of _Institutiones Poeticae_, first published at Ingolstadt in 1594, and several times reprinted. [282] Sedano, _Parnaso Espanol_, Madrid, 1774, viii. 40, 41. [283] _Cf._ Berghoeffer, _Opitz' Buch von der Poeterei_, 1888, and Beckherrn, _Opitz, Ronsard, und Heinsius_, 1888. The first reference to Aristotle's _Poetics_, north of the Alps, is to be found in Luther's _Address to the Christian Nobles of the German Nation_, 1520. Schosser's _Disputationes de Tragoedia_, published in 1559, two years before Scaliger's work appeared, is entirely based on Aristotle's _Poetics_. [284] Pope, i. 155. [285] _Loc. cit._, beginning, "Nec te fors inopina regat." [286] Pope, i. 164, beginning, "Ne tamen ah nimium." [287] Lintilhac, in _Nouvelle Revue_, lxiv. 543. [288] Scaliger, _Poet._ iii. 11. [289] Trissino, ii. 92. [290] Varchi, p. 600. [291] Tasso, xii. 217. [292] _Defense of Poesy_, p. 48. [293] _Discorso_, 1587, p. 39 v. [294] _Causeries du Lundi_, iii. 44. [295] _Art Poet._ iv. 121. [296] Berni, p. 249. [297] _Art Poet._ iii. 193. _Cf._ Dryden, _Discourse on Satire_, in _Works_, xiii. 23 _sq._ CHAPTER VI ROMANTIC ELEMENTS IN ITALIAN CRITICISM