Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

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Title: Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
THE CATHOLIC REACTION In Two Parts
BY
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
'Deh! per Dio, donna, Se romper si potria quelle grandi ale? * * * * * Tu piangi e taci; e questo meglio parmi'
SAVONAROLA: De Ruina Ecclesia


PART I
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1887 _AUTHOR'S EDITION_

PREFACE.
At the end of the second volume of my 'Renaissance in Italy' I indulged the hope that I might live to describe the phase of culture which closed that brilliant epoch. It was in truth demanded that a work pretending to display the manifold activity of the Italian genius during the 15th century and the first quarter of the 16th, should also deal with the causes which interrupted its further development upon the same lines.
This study, forming a logically-necessitated supplement to the five former volumes of 'Renaissance in Italy,' I have been permitted to complete. The results are now offered to the public in these two parts.
So far as it was possible, I have conducted my treatment of the Catholic Revival on a method analogous to that adopted for the Renaissance. I found it, however, needful to enter more minutely into details regarding facts and institutions connected with the main theme of national culture.
The Catholic Revival was by its nature reactionary. In order to explain its influences, I have been compelled to analyze the position of Spain in the Italian peninsula, the conduct of the Tridentine Council, the specific organization of the Holy Office and the Company of Jesus, and the state of society upon which those forces were brought to bear.
In the list of books which follows these prefatory remarks, I have indicated the most important of the sources used by me. Special references will be made in their proper places to works of a subordinate value for the purposes of my inquiry.
DAVOS PLATZ: July 1886.
WORKS COMMONLY REFERRED TO IN THE TWO SUCCEEDING VOLUMES OF THIS BOOK.
SISMONDI.--Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du Moyen Age. RANKE.--History of the Popes. 3 vols. English edition: Bohn. CREIGHTON.--History of the Papacy during the Reformation. 2 vols. Macmillan. BOTTA.--Storia d'Italia. Continuata da quella del Guicciardini sino al 1789. FERRARI.--Rivoluzioni d'Italia. 3 vols. QUINET.--Les Revolutions d'Italie. GALLUZZI.--Storia del Granducato di Toscana. PALLAVICINI.--Storia del Concilio Tridentino. SARPI.--Storia del Concilio. Vols. 1 and 2 of Sarpi's Opere. DENNISTOUN'S Dukes of Urbino. 3 vols. ALBERI.--Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti. MUTINELLI.--Storia Arcana ed Aneddotica d'Italia. Raccontata dai Veneti Ambasciatori. 4 vols. Venice. 1858. MUTINELLI.--Annali Urbani di Venezia. LITTA.--Famiglie Celebri Italiane. PHIUPPSON.--La Contre-R��volution Religieuse au XVIme Si��cle Bruxelles. 1884. DEJOB.--De l'Influence du Concile de Trente. Paris. 1884. GIORDANI.--Delia Venuta e Dimora in Bologna del Sommo Pontefice Clemente VII. per la Coronazione di Carlo V., Imperatore. Bologna. 1832. BALBI.--Sommario della Storia d'Italia. CANT��.--Gli Eretici d'Italia. 3 vols. Torino. 1866. LLORENTE.--Histoire Critique de I'Inquisition d'Espagne. 4 vols. Paris. 1818. LAVALL��E.--Histoire des Inquisitions Religieuses. 2 vols. Paris. 1808. MCCRIE.--History of the Reformation in Italy. Edinburgh. 1827. TIRABOSCHI.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. DE SANCTIS.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. 2 vols. SETTEMBRINI.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. 3 vols. CANT��.--Storia della Letteratura Italiana. Decreta, etc., Societatis Jesu. Avignon. 1827. CANT��.--Storia della Diocesi di Como. 2 vols. DANDOLO.--La Signora di Monza e le Streghe del Tirolo. Milano. 1855. BONGHI.--Storia di Lucrezia Buonvisi. Lucca. 1864. Archivio Storico Italiano. BANDI LUCCHESI.--Bologna: Romagnoli. 1863. BERTOLOTTI.--Francesco Cenci e la sua Famiglia. Firenze. 1877. GNOLI.--Vittoria Accoramboni. Firenze: Le Monnier. 1870. DAELLI.--Lorenzino de'Medici. Milano. 1862. DE STENDHAL.--Chroniques et Nouvelles. Paris. 1855. GIORDANO BRUNO.--Opere Italiane (Wagner). 2 vols. Leipzig. 1830. JORDANUS BRUNUS.--Opera Latina. 2 vols. Neapoli. 1879. BRUNO.--Scripta Latina (Gf?rer). Stuttgart. 1836. BERTI.--Vita di Giordano Bruno. Firenze, Torino, Milano. 1868. BRUNNHOFER.--Giordano Bruno's Weltanschauung und Verhangniss. Leipzig. 1882. PAOLO SARPI.--Opere. 6 vols. Helmstat. 1765. FRA FULGENZIO MICANZI--Vita del Sarpi. BIANCHI GIOVINI.--Biografia di Fra Paolo Sarpi. 2 vols. Bruxelles. 1836. Lettere di Fra Paolo Sarpi. 2 vols. Firenze. 1863. CAMPBELL.--Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi. London: Molini and Green. 1869 DEJOB.--Marc-Antoine Muret. Paris: Thorin. 1881. CHRISTIE.--Etienne Dolet. London: Macmillan. 1880. RENOUARD.--Imprimerie des Aides. TORQUATO TASSO.--Opere. Ed. Rosini. 33 vols. Pisa. 1822 and on.
WORKS REFERRED TO IN THIS BOOK.
TASSO.--Le Lettere. Ed. Guasti. 5 vols. Firenze. 1855. CECCHI.--T. Tasso e la Vita Italiana. Firenze. 1877. CECCHI.--T. Tasso. Il Pensiero e le Belle Lettere, etc. Firenze. 1877. D'OVIDIO.--Saggi Critici. Napoli. 1878.