- Abraham and Isaac, 136
- Accademia della Crusca, 30
- Achilleis (Statius), 185
- Achilles Tatius, 79, 87, 188
- Acciajuoli, Donato, 214
- Actores octo, see Auctores octo
- Adrian, Cardinal Corneto, 24
- Aeneid, 102, 104, 114, 121, 126, 127, 165, 185
- Aeschines, 26
- Alain de Lille, 9, 10
- Alamanni, Luigi, 13, 67, 96-98
- Alberti, Leone Battista, 27
- Aldus Manutius, 9, 20
- Alexandrian literature, 7, 78, 90
- Alexandrianism, 123, 188
- Allegory, 123, 130, 133
- Alliteration, 87, 129, 199
- Alunno, Francesco, 31, 37
- Amadis of Gaul, 95
- Amants fortunés, Les, 194
- Ameto (Boccaccio), 82, 84
- Aminta (Tasso), 87, 147, 153
- Amyot, Jacques, 23, 90, 238
- Anacreon, 21, 79
- Annales d’Aquitaine (Bouchet), 134
- Anthology, 7, 21, 79, 104
- Antigone (Garnier), 142
- Antigone (Sophocles), 142
- Aphthonius, 21
- Apollonius Rhodius, 21, 79, 188
- Apuleius, 93, 179, 188
- Aquila, Serafino d’, 69
- Aquinas, 8, 9
- Arcadia (Sannazaro), 83-87
- Arcadia (Sidney), 90, 202
- Aretino, Leonardo, see Bruni, Leonardo
- Ariosto, 9, 11, 24, 30, 67, 91, 96, 101, 104, 111-23, 131, 142, 143, 147, 159, 160, 164, 168, 177, 179, 184, 205
- Aristotle, 15, 20, 25, 26, 53, 55, 61, 62, 63, 133, 145, 158, 159, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 238
- “Ars poetica” (Horace), 10, 15, 133, 155, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 171, 186, 188
- Arte of English Poesie (Campion), 183
- Arte of English Poesie (Puttenham), 182
- Arte poetica (Minturno), 44n, 168
- Arthurian cycle, 96, 98
- Art of rhetorique, The (Wilson), 62
- Art poétique, L’ (Peletier), 163-64
- Art poétique, L’ (Ronsard), 175
- Art poétique, L’ (Vauquelin de la Fresnaye), 186
- Arts poétiques, 15, 127
- Ascham, Roger, 37, 38n, 183
- Astrophel and Stella (Sidney), 77
- As You Like It (Shakspere), 146
- Athenaeus, 21
- Auctores octo, 10, 81
- Augustan Latin, 18, 44, 58, 65, 234
- Aulus Gellius, 10, 188
- Aurispa, 20
- Ausonius, 10, 79, 188
- Avarchide (Alamanni), 96
- Ayres, H. M., quoted, 147n
- Baif, 34
- Balade, 10
- Balsamo-Crivelli, Gustavo, 190
- Bandello, Matteo, 190-94, 197, 198-99
- Bankette of Sapience (Elyot), 227
- Baptistes (Buchanan), 139
- Basia (Secundus), 66
- Bede, 9
- Bellay, Cardinal du, 211
- Bellay, Joachim du, 10, 32, 34, 69, 163, 238
- Belleau, Remi, 21
- Belleforest, 198
- Bembo, 9, 15, 22, 26, 28, 30, 31, 36, 87, 170, 179, 188
- Beolco, Angelo, see Ruzzante
- Berni, 111
- Besaucèle, 195n
- Bessarion, Johannes, 20, 39
- Beza, 179
- Bibbiena, Cardinal, 179
- Blason, 118
- Boccaccio, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 20, 23, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 60, 67, 82, 84, 87, 104, 121, 153, 170, 177, 179, 185, 186, 194-96
- Bodin, 228, 229, 230, 230n, 231, 232
- Boece, Hector, 216
- Boethius, 9, 25, 37, 85
- Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 11, 91, 92, 93, 94, 101-11, 120, 124, 125, 127, 159
- Bouchet, Jean, 134
- Boulanger, André, 163
- Bradamante (Garnier), 142
- Brocardo, Jacopo, 63
- Brome Abraham and Isaac, 136
- Brown, H., 202n
- Browne, Sir Thomas, 52
- Bruni, Leonardo, 39, 214-17, 226
- Buchanan, George, 17, 137-39, 179, 216, 226, 230, 231
- Bucolics (Vergil), 80, 165
- Bucolicum carmen (Petrarch), 82
- Budé, Guillaume, 4, 22, 34, 207n
- Bundy, M. W., 162
- Caesar, 18, 216
- Caesarius, Joannes, 55
- Callimachus, 72, 79
- Calpurnius, 87
- Camillo, Giulio, 50, 55, 56, 170, 171, 188
- Campion, Thomas, 183
- Capranica, Cardinal, 39
- Carde of Fancie (Greene), 201
- Carolingian cycle, 100, 101, 124
- Cartier, Gabriel, 230n
- Castelvetro, 176, 185, 189
- Castiglione, Baldassare, 12, 30, 43, 53, 67, 114, 177, 223-25, 231
- Cathonet, 10, 81
- Cato, 58, 81
- Catullus, 57, 58, 65, 66, 72, 86, 87, 170
- Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo, 63, 195n
- Caviceo, Jacopo, 39, 40
- Caxton, William, 37, 96, 98, 130
- Certaine notes of instruction concerning ... verse or rime ... (Gascoigne), 180
- Cervantes, 132, 213
- Chamard, H., 8n
- Champier, Symphorien, 93
- Chansons de geste, 124
- Chappuys, Gabriel, 195n
- Charlton, H. B., 176n
- Châteillon, Sébastien, 52
- Châtelaine de Vergi, 194
- Chaucer, 5, 13, 14, 15, 24, 37, 67, 70, 89, 96, 108, 121, 122, 153, 180, 181, 183, 198
- Cheke, Sir John, 38n
- Chemnicensis, 181
- Chivalry, 11, 92, 124, 130, 131
- Chronicles, 214
- Chrysolaras, Manuel, 20
- Cicero, 10, 15, 18, 26, 28, 30, 40, 41, 43-45, 53, 62, 63, 163, 164, 169, 175, 178, 188, 202, 214, 216, 223, 225, 230, 234, 238
- Ciceronianism, 44, 45, 48, 49, 51, 53, 57
- Cicero thesaurus, 46, 49
- Cinthio, Giraldi, 29, 158-61, 188
- Clark, D. L., 189n
- Classicism, 3, 7, 9, 39, 45, 79, 187, 239
- Claudian, 10, 72, 79, 87, 160, 174, 188
- Colonna, Francesco, 25, 202, 209
- Comedy, 133, 134, 146-54
- Comedy of Errors (Shakspere), 147
- Comes, Natalis, see Conti, Natale
- Compleint d’amour, 118
- Concorde des deux langages (Lemaire), 31, 69
- Conflictus, 43
- Conti, Natale, 23
- Cook, Albert S., 178
- Copia (Erasmus), 54
- Corneille, 53, 145, 154
- Cornélie (Garnier), 141
- Corpus Christi cycles, 135
- Cortegiano (Castiglione), 12, 43, 53, 223, 224
- Cortesi, Paolo, 41, 48
- Court shows, medieval, 133, 147
- Croft, H. S., 227
- Cursus, 42
- Cuspidius, 211
- Cyclical romances, 98, 100, 101, 119
- Cyropaedia (Xenophon), 93
- Daniel, Samuel, 183
- Dante, 5, 8, 13, 14, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 60, 66, 82, 87, 110, 114, 119, 132, 158, 162, 168, 169, 177, 179, 238
- Daphnis and Chloe (Longus), 23, 79, 90
- Dati, Agostino, 39
- De arte poetica (Vida), 155-58
- Débat, 42
- Débat de Folie et d’Amour (Labé), 71
- De bello italico adversos gothos gesto historia (Bruni), 215
- Decameron (Boccaccio), 14, 60, 194, 195
- De causis corruptarum artium (Vives), 54
- De contemptu mundi, 10
- De elegantiae linguae latinae, 8, 19
- Defence of Ryme (Daniel), 183
- Defense of Poesy (Sidney), 89, 178-80
- Defense of Poetry (Lodge), 179n
- Deffense et illustration de la langue française (Du Bellay), 32
- De imitatione (Ricci), 50, 57
- De inventione (Cicero), 10, 45
- De jure regni apud Scotos dialogus (Buchanan), 230
- De laudibus D. Eusebii (Dati), 39
- De linguae gallicae origine (Périon), 33
- Delivery, 54
- Deloney, Thomas, 202
- Demosthenes, 21, 26, 28, 63
- Denores, Jason, 185
- De oratore (Cicero), 15, 43, 44, 45, 53, 225
- De poeta (Minturno), 13, 15, 164-67;
- excerpt, 4
- De ratione dicendi (Vives), 54
- De re publica (Bodin), 230n
- De senectute (Cicero), 208
- De studio literarum (Budé), 4
- De Tournes, 13
- De tradendis disciplinis (Vives), 54
- Dialogo delle lingue (Speroni), 26
- Dialogues, 6, 39, 42, 225
- Dialogus Ciceronianus (Erasmus), 49
- Diana (Montemayor), 186n
- Dictamen, 42
- Diomedes, 10
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 158
- Discorsi dell’ arte poetica ... (Tasso), 176-78
- Discorsi ... intorno al comporre de i romanzi, delle commedie, e delle tragedie (Cinthio), 158-61;
- excerpt, 29
- Discourse of English Poetrie (Webbe), 180
- Discussions of Tuscan (Tomitano), 59
- Discussions on politics and society, 223-32
- Dispositio, 54, 60, 64, 176
- Divina Commedia (Dante), 5, 132, 158, 168
- Dolce, Lodovico, 30
- Donadone, E., 125
- Donati, Edouardo, 180
- Donatus, 10
- Don Quixote (Cervantes), 132, 213
- Dorat, Jean, 72, 163
- Drama, 12, 87, 133-154, 190
- Dramaturgy, 6, 134, 137
- Dryden, 13, 132
- Du Bellay, see Bellay
- Due trattati (Camillo), 55
- Eclogues, 81 ff.
- Education of Children (Montaigne), 233
- Egger, Émile, 21n, 23n, 202
- Elizabethan Critical Essays (Smith), 180
- Elizabethan drama, 12, 133, 144 ff., 152, 190
- Elocutio, 54
- Elyot, Sir Thomas, 227, 231
- Empedocles, 184
- Encomium, 55, 72, 75, 90, 111, 112, 131, 188
- Endymion (Lyly), 152
- English language, 36-38
- English lyric, 66
- Epithalamion (Spenser), 74, 77
- Erasmus, 17, 40n, 42, 49, 54, 57, 63, 83, 98, 173, 204, 226, 231
- Essay on Satire (Dryden), 132
- Essays, 223-39
- Estrif, 42
- Étienne (printers), 9
- Étienne, Henri, 21, 23, 34
- Etymologiae (Isidore of Seville), 10
- Euphues (Lyly), 200
- Euphuism, 198, 200, 222
- Euripides, 53, 61, 138, 139, 144, 165
- Euryalus, 157
- Eusebius, 39
- Everaerts, Jan, see Secundus
- Exempla, 131, 194, 196, 231, 232
- Exordium, 60
- Fabliau, 109, 120, 134, 190, 194, 196
- Fabri, Pierre, 68
- Fabrica del mondo, Della (Alunno), 31
- Faerie Queene (Spenser), 77, 123, 128-32, 152
- Fenton, 198
- Fiammetta (Boccaccio), 60
- Fichet, Guillaume, 7
- Fons Bandusiae, 72
- Fracastoro, Girolamo, 162, 163, 170, 179
- Frame of the World, The (Alunno), 31
- French language, 31-36
- Gaguin, Robert, 7
- Gallus, Cornelius, 87
- Garnier, Robert, 53, 139-44, 150, 151, 153
- Gascoigne, George, 180
- Gawain and the Green Knight, 96
- Genealogia deorum gentilium (Boccaccio), 23
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, 9
- George of Trebizond, 53
- Georgics (Vergil), 165
- Gerlandia, Johannes de, 15
- Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso), 7, 53, 123, 124-27
- Gestes ensemble la vie du preulx chevalier Bayard (Champier), 93
- Giovanni di Virgilio, 82
- Giraldi Cinthio (Giovan-Battista Giraldi), 195-97
- Golden Age, 87, 89
- Golden Ass (Apuleius), 93
- Golden Legend, 9
- Googe, 181
- Governour, The (Elyot), 227
- Grande et vraie art de pleine rhétorique (Fabri), 68
- Gray, Thomas, 74
- Greek dramaturgy, 6, 134, 137
- Greek exiles in Italy, 20
- Greek language, revival, 5 ff., 19-27, 35
- Greek Literature, 7, 78, 79, 90, 137, 145, 179, 188
- Greek oratory, 40
- Greene, Robert, 201
- Grotesque, 101, 106
- Gryphius, 9, 13
- Guarini, 148 ff.
- Guarino da Verona, 20, 210
- Guicciardini, 228
- Gyrone il cortese (Luigi Alamanni), 96
- Harvey, Gabriel, 183
- Hecatommithi (Giraldi Cinthio), 195-97
- Heinsius, 138
- Heliodorus, 79, 188
- Henry V (Shakspere), 146
- Heptameron (Marguerite de Navarre), 14, 194
- Hermes Trismegistus, 20
- Hermogenes, 21, 55, 63, 79, 160, 170, 171, 188
- Herodotus, 92, 214
- Hesiod, 181
- Hippocrates, Aphorisms, 211
- Hippolyte (Garnier), 141
- Historiarum florentini (Bruni), 214-17
- History, 213-22
- History plays, 144-46
- History of King Richard the Thirde, The (More), 217-20, 226
- Homer, 7, 20, 22, 58, 96, 156, 157, 160, 165, 168, 173, 184, 185
- Hooker, Richard, 52, 220
- Horace, 65, 71, 72, 73, 86, 87, 114, 131, 156, 160, 161, 166, 168, 169, 170, 174, 179, 180, 181, 182, 189;
- “Ars poetica,” 10, 15, 133, 155, 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 171, 186, 188
- Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 13, 37, 67, 180, 181
- Hugh of St. Victor, 9
- Humanism, 14, 17-19, 30, 39, 71, 82, 137, 138
- Humanistic Latin tragedy, 139
- Humbert, Louis, 34n
- Hypnerotomachia (Colonna), 25, 202, 209
- Idea del theatro, L’ (Camillo), 56
- Ideas (Hermogenes), 55
- Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 93
- Imaginary addresses, 40
- Imitatio Christi, 52
- Imitation, 19, 39-90, 187
- Imitatione poetica, Della (Partenio), 169-71
- Inventio, 53, 54, 60, 63, 176
- Isidore of Seville, 10
- Isocolon, 200
- Isocrates, 21
- Isopet, 10, 81
- Istorie fiorentine (Macchiavelli), 220-22, 224
- Italian language, 27-31, 35
- Italian orations, 40
- Jardin de plaisance, Le, 10
- Jean d’ Arras, 95
- Jephthes (Buchanan), 138, 139
- Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso), 7, 53, 123, 124-27
- John of Salisbury, 8, 42, 45
- Johnson, Samuel, 42, 212
- Jonson, Ben, 89
- Juifves, Les (Garnier), 143
- Junta, 9
- Kelso, Ruth, 162
- Labé, Louise, 13, 71
- Ladislaus, King, 39
- Lancaster, H. C., 142n
- Landriani, Gherardo, 44
- Latin language, 6, 7, 14, 17, 26, 27, 46, 155, 216, 232
- Latin literature, 5, 17-19, 39, 41, 45, 46, 65, 79, 134, 138, 139
- Lemaire, Jean, 31, 65, 68, 69, 71
- Letters, 39, 41, 42
- Libanius, 21
- Liber Theoduli, 82
- Livy, 21, 63, 213, 214
- Lodge, 179n
- Longueil, Christophe de (Longolius), 46, 50, 57, 59
- Longus, 23, 79
- Loyola, 210
- Lucan, 10, 79, 174
- Lucian, 93, 226
- Lucretius, 26, 58, 87, 236
- Lumby, J. R., 217
- Lydgate, John, 67
- Lyly, John, 38, 152, 153, 181, 200
- Macchiavelli, 10, 12, 178, 213, 216, 220-24, 229, 231, 232
- Macrobius, 188
- Maggio, Vicentio, 159
- Mair, G. H., 62
- Malory, Sir Thomas, 11, 36, 37, 91-99, 103, 105, 107, 130
- Manilius, 58
- Mantuan (Baptista Spagnolo), 82, 88, 89, 180
- Manuals, 15, 53
- Marc-Antoine (Garnier), 141
- Marguerite de Navarre, 14, 194
- Marionettes, Carlomagno, 100
- Marlowe, Christopher, 137, 146
- Marot, Clement, 65, 67, 70, 75, 90
- Martial, 70
- Martianus Capella, 10
- Matthieu de Vendôme, 10
- Medea (Euripides), 138, 139
- Medici, Cosimo dei, 12
- Medici, Lorenzo de’, 147n
- Melanchthon, 179, 228
- Melodrama, 12, 144
- Mélusine (Jean d’ Arras), 9, 95
- Memoria, 54
- Menander, 170
- Merchant of Venice (Shakspere), 146
- Metamorphoses (Ovid), 185
- Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem (Bodin), 228
- Metric, 180
- Michael Angelo, 29
- Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakspere), 153
- Migne, 42n
- Mignonne (Ronsard), 77
- Milton, 132, 144
- Minturno, 13, 15, 44n, 164-69
- Miracle, 133, 134, 135
- Miracle plays, 7
- Montaigne, 18, 23, 178, 232-39
- Montano, Cola, 222
- Montemayor, 186n
- More, Sir Thomas, 17, 37, 217-20, 226
- Morgante maggiore (Pulci), 100-102
- Morte d’Arthur (Malory), 92, 98-99
- Mortier, Alfred, 152n
- Muret, Marc Antoine, (Muretus), 41, 50, 179
- Muzio, 161-62
- Mystère, 133, 134, 135
- Mythologiae (Conti), 23
- Mythology, 23, 77, 87, 147, 198
- Naenia (Pontano), 66
- Narratio, 60, 64, 220
- Narrative, prose, 190-222
- Nativity (York), 137
- Navagero, 67, 170
- Nemesianus, 87
- Neo-Platonists, 7, 20
- Nepos, Cornelius, 93
- Nicoli, Nicolao, 12
- “Nizolian paper books,” 46
- Novella, 14
- Novelle (Bandello), 190-94, 198-99
- Observations on Petrarch (Alunno), 31
- Observations on the Vernacular (Dolce), 30
- Ode to Michel de l’Hospital (Ronsard), 73
- Ode to the King on the Peace (Ronsard), 73
- Odes, Pindaric, 72 ff.
- Odyssey (Homer), 185
- Old Wives’ Tale (Peele), 152
- Oratio in expositione Homeri (Poliziano), 22
- Orationes clarorum virorum, 40
- Orationes obscurorum virorum, 40n
- Orations, 39, 40, 41, 61
- Orator (Cicero), 44, 45
- Orfeo (Poliziano), 147
- Orlando furioso (Ariosto), 111-23, 142, 168
- Orlando innamorato (Boiardo), 93, 102-11
- Ovid, 23, 58, 65, 71, 72, 79, 86, 87, 160, 174, 180, 181, 185
- Padelford, F. M., 171n
- Pagan terms used for Christian religion, 49
- Pageantry, 87, 133
- Paladini di Francia, I, 100
- Pantagruel (Rabelais), 207, 211
- Paradise Lost (Milton), 132
- Parison, 200
- Parlement of Foules (Chaucer), 70
- Parody, in Rabelais, 204
- Paromoion, 200
- Partenio, Bernardino, 169-71, 188
- Partitiones oratoriae (Brocardo), 63
- Pastoral, 78-90, 146-54
- Pastor fido, Il (Guarini), 148 ff.
- Patrizzi, Francesco, 61, 184
- Peele, 152, 153
- Peletier, Jacques, 163-64
- Pellissier, Georges, 186
- Périon, 33
- Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure, A (Pettie), 199
- Petrarch, 5, 6, 13, 20, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37, 60, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 82, 87, 114, 161, 162, 168, 170, 177, 179, 188, 222, 237
- Petrus Comestor, 10
- Pettie, William, 199
- Pharmaceutria, 58, 81
- Pico, 170
- Piers Plowman, 131
- Pilgrim’s Progress, 52
- Pindar, 71, 72, 79, 168, 179
- Pindarics, 72 ff.
- Plantin, Christophe, 9
- Plato, 7, 20, 25, 26, 43, 44, 62, 63, 165, 178, 179, 226
- Platonic dialogue, 43, 61
- Platonism, 25, 61
- Plattard, J., 210n, 211n, 212n
- Plautus, 58, 134, 147, 151
- Plays, sacred, 134-37
- Pléiade, 32, 37, 65, 69, 70, 71, 74, 119, 163, 175, 183, 186, 204
- Pliny, 26, 198
- Plutarch, 23, 63, 140, 179, 208, 238
- Poema eroico (Tasso), 176
- Poetic, confusion with rhetoric, 15, 188
- Poetic (Aristotle), 15, 25, 158, 164, 176, 189, 238
- Poetica (Scaliger), 4, 171-75
- Poetica (Trissino), 67, 158
- Poetica dialogus (Fracastoro), 162
- Poetica di Francesco Patrici ..., 184
- Poetica di Jason Denores, 185
- Poetics, sixteenth-century, 155-89
- Politics, discussions on, 223-32
- Poliziano, 22, 41, 47-49, 50, 57, 87, 166, 226
- Pollio (Vergil), 81
- Pontano, 58, 66, 72, 170, 179
- Pontus and the Fair Sidoine, 9, 95
- Porcari, Stefano, 221
- Porcie (Garnier), 139
- Praelectio, 41, 47, 50
- Preëminence of the French language (Étienne), 34
- Principe (Macchiavelli), 223
- Printers, 9
- Printing, effect on literary progress, 5, 9, 30, 231
- Priscian, 10
- Project du livre entitulé De la précellence du langage françois (Étienne), 34
- Pronuntiatio, 54
- Propertius, 87
- Prose (Bembo), 28
- Prose forms, imitation of, 39-64
- Prose narrative, 190-222
- Prosopopoeia, 40
- Prothalamion (Spenser), 74
- Provençal, 28, 36, 66
- Proverbia (Alain de Lille), 10
- Publishers, 9, 13
- Pulci, Luigi, 100-102, 109
- Puttenham, 182, 183
- Quintilian, 15, 47, 53, 55, 62, 63, 163, 164, 236n, 238
- Rabelais, François, 22, 25n, 37, 202-13, 239
- Ragionamenti della lingua toscana (Tomitano), 59
- Raphael, 29
- Ratio studiorum, 64
- Religion, in Tasso and Spenser, 123, 124
- Rerum scoticarum historia (Buchanan), 216
- Retorica, Della (Patrizzi), 61
- Retorica, La (Cavalcanti), 63
- Rhetoric, confusion of poetic with, 15;
- of Hermogenes, 188;
- recovery of Cicero’s works on, 44;
- Renaissance preoccupation with, 41
- Rhetoric (Aristotle), 62, 63
- Rhetoric (Soarez), 64
- Rhetorica (Joannes Caesarius), 55
- Rhetorica (George of Trebizond), 53
- Rhetorica ad Herennium, 10, 45, 63
- Rhetorics, 53-64
- Rhétoriques, 68
- Rhétoriqueurs, 65, 68
- Rhythm, English tradition of, 180
- Ricci, Bartolomeo, 40, 40n, 50, 57
- Richard III (More), 217-20, 226
- Richard III (Shakspere), 146
- Riches of the Vernacular, The (Alunno), 31
- Rime diverse del Mutio Iustinopolitano ... (Muzio), 161-62
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 93
- Robinson, Ralph, 226
- Romance, 91-132;
- Arthurian cycle in Malory, 98;
- Carolingian cycle, 100, 101, 124;
- Greek, 7, 90, 179, 188;
- separate romances, 95-98
- Roman de la Rose, 70
- Romantic contrast, 91-95
- Ronsard, Pierre de, 10, 21, 23, 34, 35, 65, 67, 71-75, 77, 113, 119, 163, 175, 179, 188, 238
- Round Table stories, 98, 108
- Rouville, 13
- Ruddiman, Thomas, 230n
- Ruskin, John, 62
- Rustic and pastoral comedy, 146-54
- Ruzzante (Angelo Beolco), 150 ff.
- Sacred plays, 133-37
- Sacre rappresentazioni, 134
- Sallust, 18, 58
- Samson Agonistes (Milton), 144
- Sannazaro, Jacopo, 83-87, 165, 170, 179
- Sansovino, Francesco, 40
- Sappho, 87
- Satire, of Rabelais, 207
- Scaliger, Joseph, 137, 138, 188, 216
- Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 4, 23, 171-75, 179
- Scève, Maurice, 13
- Schemata, 200
- Scholars, gentlemen, 187
- Scholemaster (Ascham), 38n
- Scotorum historiae (Boece), 216
- Secunda Pastorum, 137, 150
- Secundus, Joannes, 66, 72
- Seneca, 10, 21, 87, 133, 134, 137, 142, 144, 145, 146, 158, 159, 165, 166, 179, 234, 238
- Sententiae, 221
- Shakspere, 145, 146, 147, 150, 153, 196
- Shaksperian sonnet, 68
- Shepherd’s Calendar (Spenser), 88-90
- Sidney, Sir Philip, 46, 77, 89, 90, 178-80, 181, 188, 189, 202
- Sidonius, 10, 188
- Silius Italicus, 174, 188
- Six Livres de la république, Les, (Bodin), 230
- Skelton, 37, 67, 202
- Smith, G. Gregory, 180, 182
- Soarez, 64
- Solerti, Angelo, 87, 176
- Sonnet, 66, 68, 77
- Sophistic, 21, 40, 53, 55, 188, 200
- Sophocles, 20, 21, 61, 142, 144, 165
- Spagnolo, Baptista (Mantuan), 82, 88, 89, 180
- Speculum (Vincent of Beauvais), 10
- Spenser, 9, 13, 14, 24, 37, 73, 74, 75, 77, 88-91, 111, 123, 127-32, 152, 180, 181, 183
- Speroni, Sperone, 26, 43, 59, 60
- Sprague, Arthur C., 183n
- Statius, 10, 47, 87, 142, 174, 185, 188
- Status, 54
- Stephen of Tournay, 42n
- Stoer, Jacobus, 228
- Story-tellers, street, 100, 101
- Story-telling, see Tales
- Strowski, F., 233n
- Style, literary preoccupation with, 18, 29, 52, 137
- Suppositi, I (Ariosto), 147
- Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, see Howard, Henry
- Tacitus, 41, 50, 213, 214, 223
- Tales, 190-202
- Tamburlaine (Marlowe), 146
- Tasso, 7, 30, 52, 87, 91, 123-27, 148, 150, 153, 176-78, 184, 185, 189, 238
- Tatius, see Achilles Tatius
- Tennyson, 93
- Terence, 58, 134, 147, 170
- Theocritus, 58, 79, 81, 86, 87, 88, 173
- Theodulus, 82
- Thesaurus, 46
- Three styles, 15, 165, 166, 177
- Thucydides, 21, 63, 213, 214
- Tibullus, 87
- Timone (Boiardo), 93
- Tobias (Matthieu de Vendôme), 10
- Tolomei, Claudio, 40
- Tomitano, Bernardino, 59
- Tournes, Jean de, 163
- Towneley Plays, Secunda Pastorum, 137, 150
- Tragedy, 133, 134, 137-45
- Tragicomedy, 133, 142, 148
- Trattato della imitatione (Camillo), 50
- Trimerone (Patrizzi), 184
- Trionfi (Petrarch), 168
- Trissino, Giovan Giorgio, 67, 158, 159, 177
- Troade, La (Garnier), 141
- Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 15, 24, 96, 122
- Turnebus, 137
- Tuscan, 28, 30
- Tusser, 181
- Urbium dicta Maximilianum (Caviceo), 40
- Utopia (More), 226
- Valla, Lorenzo, 8, 19
- Varro, 58
- Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, 186, 188, 189
- Venatio (Adrian), 24
- Vérard, Antoine, 68
- Vergil, 18, 26, 30, 53, 56, 58, 63, 65, 71, 72, 79, 80, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88, 96, 98, 110, 114, 122, 123, 155, 156, 157, 160, 162, 163, 165, 166, 170, 173, 174, 177, 179, 181, 236, 238;
- Aeneid, 102, 104, 114, 121, 126, 127, 165, 185
- Vernaculars, 5, 17, 27-38, 68-78
- Verse, English discussion of, 180-84
- Verse narrative, medieval, 7, 10, 91, 96
- Vespasiano, 12
- Vida, Marco Girolamo, 155-58, 163, 170, 172
- Villon, 10, 68
- Vincent of Beauvais, 10
- Vinea, Gabriel, 13
- Vittorino, 210
- Vives, Juan Luis, 54, 210
- Vopiscus, 50
- Webbe, William, 180, 183
- Weston, G. B., 100n
- Wiat, Sir Thomas, 13, 67
- Wilson, Thomas, 62
- Witherspoon, A. M., 144n
- Wolff, Samuel Lee, 202n
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas, see Wiat, Sir Thomas
- Xenophon, 93
- York Plays, Nativity, 137
About This Book
A scholarly survey of Renaissance literary theory and practice that traces how the humanist recovery of classical models shaped Latin, Greek, and vernacular writing across Europe. The study distinguishes rhetorical and poetic aims, explores imitation and Ciceronian prose influence, and examines developments in lyric, pastoral, romance, drama, prose narrative, history, and essay. It analyzes sixteenth-century poetics and prominent theorists, showing how theoretical principles guided composition and how misapplied rhetoric could distort poetic and dramatic practice. The method relies on direct engagement with original sources and translations, using representative samples to connect critical debate with evolving literary forms.