Individualism in the Early Italian Renaissance: Burden and Blessing*
Marvin B. Becker
Almost all Elizabethan criticism of any seriousness and weight was written in Latin. Yet no one would imagine this, to look at the literary histories.’ A Latin treatise defense poetry acting by Alberico Gentili, which it is my purpose here edit translate, has altogether escaped notice historians students literature, even though published Oxford University Printer, greatest days Queen Elizabedi's reign. The main outlines life Gentili are well enough known. He born Italy San Ginesio 1552, studied Perugia, whence he graduated as a doctor civil law 1572. Protestant, suspected heresy, compelled flee Inquisition, along with his father Matteo, younger brother Scipione.
Studies in the Renaissance