Elizabethan prose--Two schools of writers--Roger Ascham--His books and style--Webbe and Puttenham--The sentence--Euphuism--The _Arcadia_--Sidney’s style--Short stories--Nash’s _Unfortunate Traveller_--Nash and the pamphleteers--Martin Marprelate--Origin of the Marprelate Tracts--The _Diotrephes_--Course of the controversy--Its place in literary history--Hooker--_The Ecclesiastical Polity_ 259 CHAPTER X. FRANCE. POETRY OF THE LATER RENAISSANCE. The Pléiade--Ronsard--The lesser stars--The _Défense et Illustration de la Langue Française_--The work of Ronsard--His place in poetry--Joachim du Bellay--Remi Belleau--Baïf--Du Bartas--D’Aubigné--The dramatic work of the Pléiade--Jodelle--Grevin and La Taille--Montchrestien--The comedy--_La Reconnue_--Causes of failure of early dramatic literature 290 CHAPTER XI. FRENCH PROSE-WRITERS OF THE LATER SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Abundance of later sixteenth-century prose--A distinction--Sully--Bodin--The great memoir-writers--Carloix--La Noue--D’Aubigné--Monluc--Brantôme--The _Satyre Ménippée_--Its origin--Its authors--Its form and spirit--Montaigne--His _Essays_--The scepticism of Montaigne--His style--Charron and Du Vair 326 CHAPTER XII. THE LATER RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. The later Renaissance in Italy--Torquato Tasso--His work--The _Gerusalemme Liberata_--Giordano Bruno--Literary character of his work--Giambattista Guarini 352 CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION 367 INDEX 379 * * * * * THE LATER RENAISSANCE. CHAPTER I. THE LATER RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN. THE UNITY OF SPANISH LITERATURE--LIMITS OF TREATMENT--A PREVAILING CHARACTERISTIC--THE DIVISION INTO NATIVE AND IMITATIVE--THE INHERITANCE FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY--SPANISH VERSE--THE “CANCIONEROS”--THE ROMANCES--THE “ROMANCEROS”--THE QUALITY OF THIS POETRY--SPAIN AND ITALY--THE “DIÁLOGO DE LA LENGUA”--PROSE OF THE EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY--THE INFLUENCE OF THE INQUISITION. [SN: _The unity of Spanish Literature._]