CHAPTER III.

SCALIGER, CASTELVETRO, AND THE LATER ITALIAN CRITICS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Julius Cæsar Scaliger 69 The _Poetic_ 70 Book I.: _Historicus_ 71 Book II.: _Hyle_ 72 Books III. and IV.: _Idea_ and _Parasceve_ 73 Books V. and VI.: _Criticus_ and _Hypercriticus_ 73 Book VII.: _Epinomis_ 75 General ideas on Unity and the like 76 His Virgil-worship 77 His solid merits 78 Castelvetro 80 The Opere Varie 81 The _Poetica_ 82 On Dramatic conditions 83 On the Three Unities 83 On the freedom of Epic 84 His eccentric acuteness 84 Examples: Homer’s nodding, prose in tragedy, Virgil, minor 86 poetry The medium and end of Poetry 86 Uncompromising championship of Delight 87

His exceptional interest and importance 88 Tasso and the controversies over the _Gerusalemme_ 89 Tasso’s Critical writings 92 And position 93 Patrizzi: his _Poetica_ 94 The _Deca Istoriale_ 95 The _Deca Disputata_ 96 The _Trimerone_ on Tasso 100 Remarkable position of Patrizzi 101 _Sed contra mundum_ 101 The latest group of sixteenth-century Critics 102 Partenio 102 Viperano 103 Piccolomini 103 Gilio 104 Mazzoni 105 Denores 106 Zinano 107 Mazzone da Miglionico, &c. 107 Summo 108