Comus and Other PoemsOxford U.P., 1968 - 197 pages |
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Page 158
... Renaissance followers , Bembo ( 1470-1547 ) , Della Casa ( 1503-56 ) , and Tasso ( 1544-95 ) . These innovations aimed at bringing the sonnet closer to Latin classical verse , and particularly to the stately diction of Virgil and Horace ...
... Renaissance followers , Bembo ( 1470-1547 ) , Della Casa ( 1503-56 ) , and Tasso ( 1544-95 ) . These innovations aimed at bringing the sonnet closer to Latin classical verse , and particularly to the stately diction of Virgil and Horace ...
Page 187
... Renaissance Platonists set out to make a new syn- thesis between religion and philosophy ; the materials at their disposal included late Platonic and pseudo - Platonic writings , as well as those of Plato himself . Ficino and his ...
... Renaissance Platonists set out to make a new syn- thesis between religion and philosophy ; the materials at their disposal included late Platonic and pseudo - Platonic writings , as well as those of Plato himself . Ficino and his ...
Page 192
... Renaissance . And though the Renaissance brought new speculations and an increased knowledge of the physical universe , and thus threw doubt on the old assumptions , it brought also that Platonic theory and habit of mind which we have ...
... Renaissance . And though the Renaissance brought new speculations and an increased knowledge of the physical universe , and thus threw doubt on the old assumptions , it brought also that Platonic theory and habit of mind which we have ...
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