For these reasons, whilst noting the importance, in the prehistory of Æsthetic, of these new words and the new views they express; and while recognizing their value as a ferment in the discussion of the æsthetic problem, taken up by thinkers of the Renaissance at the point at which it had been left by the ancients; we yet cannot discern in their apparition the true origin of our science. By these words and the discussions they aroused, the æsthetic fact clamoured even louder and more insistently for its own philosophical justification; but this it was not yet to attain either by this means or by any other. [1] _E.g._ Molière, _Préc. ridic._ sc. i, 10. [2] _I fonti dell' ingegno ridotti ad arte,_ Bologna, 1650. [3] _Delle acutezze che altrimenti spiriti, vivezze e concetti volgarmenti si appellano,_ Genova-Bologna, 1639. [4] _Agudeza y arte de ingenio,_ Madrid, 1642; enlarged, Huesca, 1649. [5] _Saggio del gusto e delle belle arti,_ 1783, ch. I, _note._ [6] Ital. trans. in Orsi, _Considerazioni,_ etc. (Modena, 1735), vol. i. dial. 1. [7] _Orl. Furioso_, xxxv. 26; L. Dolce, _Dial. del pittura_ (Venice, 1557); _ad init_. [8] Borinski, _Poet. d. Renaiss._ p. 308 _seqq._; _B. Gracian_, pp. 39-54. [9] _Riflessioni sopra il buon gusto_ (Venice, 1766), introd. pp. 72-84. [10] Gracian, _Obras_ (Antwerp, 1669); _El héroe, El discreto,_ with introd. by A. Farinelli, Madrid, 1900. Cf. Borinski, _Poet. d. Renais, l.c._ [11] _Les Caractères, ou les mœurs du siècle,_ ch. I; _Des ouvrages de l'esprit._ [12] In the programme: _Von der Nachahmung der Franzosen,_ Leipzig, 1687. [13] _Opera ... nella quale con alcune certe considerazioni si mostra in che consista il vero buon gusto ne' suddetti componimenti,_ etc., etc., Bologna, 1696. [14] _Delle riflessioni sopra il buon gusto nelle scienze e nell' arti,_ 1708 (Venice, 1766). [15] Muratori, _Della perfetta poesia italiana,_ Modena, 1706, bk. ii. ch. 5. [16] Mazzuchelli, _Scrittori d' Italia,_ vol. ii. part iv. p. 2389. [17] Cicero, _De oratore,_ iii. ch. 50; Quintilian, _Inst. Orator,_ vi. ch. 5. [18] _De la délicatesse,_ Paris, 1671. [19] _Il buon gusto,_ ch. 39, p. 367. [20] _Del bene_ (Naples, 1681), bk. i. part i. chs. 49-53. Cf. the same writer's _Arte della perfezion cristiana,_ Rome, 1665, bk. i. ch. 3. [21] _Perfetta poesia,_ bk. i. chs. 14, 21. [22] _Ragion poetica,_ in _Prose italiane,_ ed. De Stefano, Naples, 1839, i. ch. 7. 2 _Il buon gusto,_ p. 10. [23] _Esame degl' ingegni degl' huomini per apprender le scienze_ (Ital. trans. by C. Camilli, Venice, 1586), chs. 9-12. [24] _De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum,_ bk. ii. ch. 13. [25] _De homine_ (in _Opera phil.,_ ed. Molesworth, vol. iii.), ch. 2. [26] _Spectator,_ Nos. 411-421 (_Works,_ London, 1721, pp. 486-519). [27] _Die Discourse der Mahlern,_ 1721--1723; _Von dem Einflüss und Gebrauche der Einbildungskraft,_ etc., 1727; and other writings of Bodmer and Breitinger.