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Galileo, Torricelli, Borelli, Patrizi, Telesio, Campanella,
Bruno, Castiglione, Machiavelli, and others.--12. Decline of the
Literature in the Seventeenth Century.--13. Epic and Lyric Poetry;
Marini, Filicaja.--14. Mock Heroic Poetry, the Drama, and Satire;
Tassoni, Bracciolini, Anderini, and others.--15. History and Epistolary
Writings; Davila, Bentivoglio, Sarpi, Redi.
PERIOD THIRD.--1. Historical Development of the Third Period.--2.
The Melodrama; Rinuccini, Zeno, Metastasio.--3. Comedy; Goldoni, C.
Gozzi, and others.--4. Tragedy; Maffei, Alfieri, Monti, Manzoni,
Nicolini, and others.--5. Lyric, Epic, and Didactic Poetry; Parini, Monti,
Ugo Foscolo, Leopardi, Grossi, Lorenzi, and others.--6. Heroic-Comic
Poetry, Satire, and Fable; Fortiguerri, Passeroni, G. Gozzi, Parini,
Ginsti, and others. --7. Romances; Verri, Manzoni, D'Azeglio, Cantù,
Guerrazzi, and others. --8. History; Muratori, Vico, Giannone, Botta,
Colletta, Tiraboschi, and others.--9. Aesthetics, Criticism, Philology,
and Philosophy; Baretti, Parini, Giordani, Gioja, Romagnosi, Gallupi,
Roemini, Gioberti.--From 1860 to 1885.
FRENCH LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. French Literature and its Divisions.--2. The
Language
PERIOD FIRST.--1. The Troubadours.--2. The Trouvères.--3. French
Literature in the Fifteenth Century.--4. The Mysteries and Moralities:

Charles of Orleans, Villon, Ville-Hardouin, Joinville, Froissart,
Philippe de Commines.
PERIOD SECOND.--1. The Renaissance and the Reformation:
Marguerite de Valois, Marot, Rabelais, Calvin, Montaigne, Charron,
and others.--2. Light Literature: Ronsard, Jodelle, Hardy, Malherbe,
Scarron, Madame de Rambouillet, and others.--3. The French
Academy.--4. The Drama: Corneille.--5. Philosophy: Descartes, Pascal;
Port Royal.--6. The Rise of the Golden Age of French Literature: Louis
XIV.--7. Tragedy: Racine.--8. Comedy: Molière.--9. Fables, Satires,
Mock-Heroic, and other Poetry: La Fontaine, Boileau.--10. Eloquence
of the Pulpit and of the Bar: Bourdaloue, Bossuet, Massillon, Fléchier,
Le Maitre, D'Aguesseau, and others.--11. Moral Philosophy:
Rochefoucault, La Bruyère, Nicole.--12. History and Memoirs:
Mézeray, Fleury, Rollia, Brantôme, the Duke of Sully, Cardinal de
Retz.--13. Romance and Letter Writing: Fénelon, Madame de
Sévigné.--257
PERIOD THIRD.--1. The Dawn of Skepticism: Bayle, J. B. Rousseau,
Fontenelle, Lamotte.--2. Progress of Skepticism: Montesquieu, Voltaire.
--3. French Literature during the Revolution: D'Holbach, D'Alembert,
Diderot, J. J. Rousseau, Buffon, Beaumarchais, St. Pierre, and others.
--4. French Literature under the Empire: Madame de Staël,
Chateaubriand, Royer-Collard, Ronald, De Maistre.--5. French
Literature from the Age of the Restoration to the Present Time. History:
Thierry, Sismondi, Thiers, Mignet, Martin, Michelet, and others. Poetry
and the Drama; Rise of the Romantic School: Béranger, Lamartine,
Victor Hugo, and others; Les Parnassiens. Fiction: Hugo, Gautier,
Dumas, Mérimée, Balzac, Sand, Sandeau, and others. Criticism:
Sainte-Beuve, Taine, and others. Miscellaneous.
SPANISH LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.--1. Spanish Literature and its Divisions.--2. The
Language.
PERIOD FIRST.--1. Early National Literature; the Poem of the Cid;
Berceo, Alfonso the Wise, Segura; Don Juan Manuel, the Archpriest of
Hita, Santob, Ayala.--2. Old Ballads.--3. The Chronicles.-4. Romances
of Chivalry.--5. The Drama.--6. Provençal Literature in Spain.--7. The
Influence of Italian Literature in Spain.--8. The Cancioneros and Prose
Writing.--9. The Inquisition.

PERIOD SECOND.--1. The Effect of Intolerance on Letters.--2.
Influence of Italy on Spanish Literature; Boscan, Garcilasso de la Vega,
Diego de Mendoza.--3. History; Cortez, Gomara, Oviedo, Las
Casas.--4. The Drama, Rueda, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca.--5.
Romances and Tales; Cervantes, and other Writers of Fiction.--6.
Historical Narrative Poems; Ercilla.--7. Lyric Poetry; the Argensolas;
Luis de Leon, Quevedo, Herrera, Gongora, and others.--8. Satirical and
other Poetry.--9. History and other Prose Writing; Zurita, Mariana,
Sandoval, and others.
PERIOD THIRD.--1. French Influence on the Literature of Spain.--2.
The Dawn of Spanish Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Feyjoo, Isla,
Moratin the elder, Yriarte, Melendez, Gonzalez, Quintana, Moratin the
younger.--3. Spanish Literature in the Nineteenth Century.
PORTUGUESE LITERATURE.
1. The Portuguese Language.--2. Early Literature of Portugal.--3. Poets
of the Fifteenth Century; Macias, Ribeyro.--4. Introduction of the
Italian Style; Saa de Miranda, Montemayor, Ferreira.--5. Epic Poetry;
Camoëns; the Lusiad.--6. Dramatic Poetry; Gil Vicente.--7. Prose
Writing; Rodriguez Lobo, Barros, Brito, Veira.--8. Portuguese
Literature in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries;
Antonio José, Manuel do Nascimento, Manuel de Bocage.
FINNISH LITERATURE.
1. The Finnish Language and Literature: Poetry; the Kalevala; Lönnrot;
Korhonen.--2. The Hungarian Language and Literature: the Age of
Stephen I.; Influence of the House of Anjou; of the Reformation; of the
House of Austria; Kossuth; Josika; Eötvös; Kuthy; Szigligeti; Petöfi.
SLAVIC LITERATURES.
The Slavic Race and Languages; the Eastern and Western Stems; the
Alphabets; the Old or Church Slavic Language; St. Cyril's Bible; the
Pravda Russkaya; the Annals of Nestor.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE.
1. The Language.--2. Literature in the Reign of Peter the Great; of
Alexander; of Nicholas; Danilof, Lomonosof, Kheraskof, Derzhavin,
Karamzin.--3. History, Poetry, the Drama: Kostrof, Dmitrief,
Zhukoffski, Krylof, Pushkin, Lermontoff, Gogol.--4. Literature in
Russia since the Crimean War: School of Nature; Turguenieff;
Ultra-realistic School: Science; Mendeleéff.

THE SERVIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
THE BOHEMIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
John Huss, Jerome of Prague, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Comenius, and
others.
THE POLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Rey, Bielski, Copernicus, Czartoryski, Niemcewicz, Mickiewicz, and
others.
ROMANIAN LITERATURE.
Carmen Sylva.
DUTCH LITERATURE.
1. The Language.--2. Dutch Literature to the Sixteenth Century:
Maerlant; Melis Stoke; De Weert; the Chambers of Rhetoric; the
Flemish Chroniclers; the Rise of the Dutch