Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781419173899
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Europe; European - General
First sentence: 1. IN the first part of the sixteenth century, we have seen that the foundations of a solid structure of classical learning had been laid in many parts of Europe; the superiority of Italy had generally become far less conspicuous, or might perhaps be wholly denied; in all the German Empire, in France, and even in England, the study of ancient literature had been almost uniformly progressive.