TASSO.--Le Lettere. Ed. Guasti. 5 vols. Firenze. 1855. CECCHI.--T. Tasso e la Vita Italiana. Firenze. 1877. CECCHI.--T. Tasso. Il Pensiero e le Belle Lettere, etc. Firenze. 1877. D'OVIDIO.--Saggi Critici. Napoli. 1878. MANSO.--Vita di T. Tasso, in Rosini's edition, vol. 33. ROSINI.--Saggio sugli Amori di T. Tasso, in edition cited above, vol. 33. GUARINI.--Il Pastor Fido. Ed. Casella. Firenze: Barbera. 1866. MARINO.--Adone, etc. Napoli. 1861. CHIABRERA.--Ed. Polidori. Firenze: Barbera. 1865. TASSONI.--La Secchia Rapita. Ed. Carducci. Firenze: Barbera 1861. Il Parnaso Italiano. BAINI.--Vita di G. P. L. Palestrina. FELSINA PITTRICE.--2 vols. Bologna. 1841. LANZI.--History of Painting in Italy. English Edition. London. Bohn. Vol. 3. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. THE SPANISH HEGEMONY. Italy in the Renaissance--The Five Great Powers--The Kingdom of Naples--The Papacy--The Duchy of Milan--Venice--The Florentine Republic--Wars of Invasion closed by the Sack of Rome in 1527--Concordat between Clement VII. and Charles V.--Treaty of Barcelona and Paix des Dames--Charles lands at Genoa--His Journey to Bologna--Entrance into Bologna and Reception by Clement--Mustering of Italian Princes--Franceso Sforza replaced in the Duchy of Milan--Venetian Embassy--Italian League signed on Christmas Eve 1529--Florence alone excluded--The Siege of Florence pressed by the Prince of Orange--Charles's Coronation as King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor--The Significance of this Ceremony at Bologna--Ceremony in S. Petronio--Settlement of the Duchy of Ferrara--Men of Letters and Arts at Bologna--The Emperor's Use of the Spanish Habit--Charles and Clement leave Bologna in March 1530--Review of the Settlement of Italy affected by Emperor and Pope--Extinction of Republics--Subsequent Absorption of Ferrara and Urbino into the Papal States--Savoy becomes an Italian Power--Period between Charles's Coronation and the Peace of Cateau Cambresis in 1559--Economical and Social Condition of the Italians under Spanish Hegemony--The Nation still exists in Separate Communities--Intellectual Conditions--Predominance of Spain and Rome--Both Cosmopolitan Powers--Leveling down of the Component Portions of the Nation in a Common Servitude--The Evils of Spanish Rule CHAPTER II. THE PAPACY AND THE TRIDENTINE COUNCIL.