Reproduction of the original.

Lord Charlemont conceived of his three-volume history of Italian poetry as a contribution to the reputation in the English-speaking world of the Italian literary tradition, by means of a substantial annotated anthology of texts, with his translations in parallel. This critical edition presents Charlemont's facing page translations of each author's work.

Essays on poets and dramatists of the seicento, the seventeenth-century period of Italian literature and art. Examines the challenge that the Baroque movement posed to the neo-Aristotelian aesthetics of the Renaissance and to the notions of decorum and morality in art.