.... DAVIDC. FOWLER University of Washington Lu Satira nel Seicento. By UMBERTOLIMENTANI. Milano-Napoli: Riccardo Ricciardi Editore, 1961. Pp. 409. L. 3,500. It is surprising that a leading scholar of seventeenth-century Italian liter- ature should devote himself to a study...

... chapter of his Preface to Chaucer. DAVIDC. FOWLER University of Washington Lu Satira nel Seicento. By UMBERTOLIMENTANI. Milano-Napoli: Riccardo Ricciardi Editore, 1961. Pp. 409. L. 3,500. It is surprising that a leading scholar...

... and the Pope, was a recognized haven. The chapter describing the University of Padua is of special importance because it so well justifies Sells’s contention that scientific knowledge was Italy’s chief contribution to England during the Seicento. Particularly interesting is the account of Sir...

... or drastically reduced the long, densely packed, and poorly organized first chapter, “History of the Seicento: Politics and War.” Such an omission, or reduction, would have permitted the inclusion of important sections of Coyats Crudities and other travel books. And it would have allowed space...

... entre 10s buenos poetas liricos y dramiticos de su siglo. Es verdad que sus versos son muy inferiores a su prosa, y ic6mo no han de serlo, si su prosa es incomparable?* 1 Suggi sulk Zetteruturu itulium del Seicento, seconda edizione riveduta (Bad, 1924), p. 122. 2 Canto I. 8 Estudios...

... Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1984. 227 pp. $28.50. Peach, Trevor (editor). Jacques Tahureau: Poisies complttes. Geneve: Droz, Textes Litteraires Franqais, 320, 1984. 496 pp. Pellandra, Carla. Seicento francese e stratepe di compensazione. Prefazione di C...

... are included with reasonable attribution; no one should be disturbed by the “rnace‘doine” of presentation. But all the new data and insights will not bring to life again the corpse of Italian Seicento literature. Limen- tani’s book must, therefore, be assigned cultural rather than literary value...

... della civiltà europea, dopo secoli di luce solare, la nostra cultura piegava ormai al tramonto, per lasciare il posto a quelle di Francia e di Inghilterra. Se nel Seicento, per il consueto ritardato moto di divulgazione della cultura, l’eco della feconda primavera della nostra rinascenza aveva ancora...

...); and Julian-Matthias Kliemann, Gesta dipinte: La grande decorazione nelle dimore italiane dal quattrocento al seicento (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 1993). 39  Gregory G. Colomb, Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press...