Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893 / 2008-09-04 00:00:00

EBOOK RENAISSANCE IN ITALY VOL. 3 ***


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RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
THE FINE ARTS
BY
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
AUTHOR OF
"AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF DANTE", "STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS"
AND "SKETCHES IN ITALY AND GREECE"
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Dii Romae indigetes, Trojae tuque auctor, Apollo,
Unde genus nostrum coeli se tollit ad astra,
Hanc saltem auferri laudem prohibete Latinis:
Artibus emineat semper, studiisque Minervae,
Italia, et gentes doceat pulcherrima Roma;
Quandoquidem armorum penitus fortuna recessit,
Tanta Italos inter crevit discordia reges;
Ipsi nos inter saevos distringimus enses,
Nec patriam pudet externis aperire tyrannis
VIDA, _Poetica_, lib. ii.

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LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO
1899


PREFACE[1]

This third volume of my book on the "Renaissance in Italy" does not
pretend to retrace the history of the Italian arts, but rather to define
their relation to the main movement of Renaissance culture. Keeping this,
the chief object of my whole work, steadily in view, I have tried to
explain the dependence of the arts on mediaeval Christianity at their
commencement, their gradual emancipation from ecclesiastical control, and
their final attainment of freedom at the moment when the classical revival
culminated.
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