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The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek tra- gedy . It is , certainly , the noblest performance of the kind ... He understood and loved the literature of modern Italy .
The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek tra- gedy . It is , certainly , the noblest performance of the kind ... He understood and loved the literature of modern Italy .
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... and impart to all his writings , prose and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful .
... and impart to all his writings , prose and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful .
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It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli .
It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement , the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli .
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The cry against them was first raised beyond the Alps - and seems to have been heard with amazement in Italy . ... It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times , that we must seek for the real ...
The cry against them was first raised beyond the Alps - and seems to have been heard with amazement in Italy . ... It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times , that we must seek for the real ...
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That which most distinguished Italy from the neigh- bouring countries was the importance which the population of the towns , from a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities , founded in wild and remote situations ...
That which most distinguished Italy from the neigh- bouring countries was the importance which the population of the towns , from a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities , founded in wild and remote situations ...
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