Chapter VII: Fourth Period of Humanism

Fall of the Humanists -- Scholarship permeates Society -- A New Ideal
of Life and Manners -- Latinisation of Names -- Classical Periphrases
-- Latin Epics on Christian Themes -- Paganism -- The Court of Leo X.
-- Honours of the Church given to Scholars -- Ecclesiastical Men of
the World -- Mæcenases at Rome -- Papal and Imperial Rome -- Moral
Corruption -- Social Refinement -- The Roman Academy -- Pietro Bembo
-- His Life at Ferrara -- At Urbino -- Comes to Rome -- Employed by
Leo -- Retirement to Padua -- His Dictatorship of Letters -- Jacopo
Sadoleto -- A Graver Genius than Bembo -- Paulus Jovius -- Latin
Stylist -- His Histories -- Baldassare Castiglione -- Life at Urbino
and Rome -- The Courtly Scholar -- His Diplomatic Missions -- Alberto
Pio -- Gian Francesco Pico della Mirandola -- The Vicissitudes of his
Life -- Jerome Aleander -- Oriental Studies -- The Library of the
Vatican -- His Mission to Germany -- Inghirami, Beroaldo, and
Acciaiuoli -- The Roman University -- John Lascaris -- Study of
Antiquities -- Origin of the 'Corpus Inscriptionum' -- Topographical
Studies -- Formation of the Vatican Sculpture Gallery -- Discovery of
the Laocoon -- Feeling for Statues in Renaissance Italy -- Venetian
Envoys in the Belvedere -- Raphael's Plan for Excavating Ancient Rome
-- His Letter to Leo -- Effect of Antiquarian Researches on the Arts
-- Intellectual Supremacy of Rome in this Period -- The Fall -- Adrian
VI. -- The Sack of Rome -- Valeriano's Description of the Sufferings
of Scholars 284

CHAPTER VIII

LATIN POETRY

Special Causes for the Practice of Latin Versification in Italy -- The
Want of an Italian Language -- Multitudes of Poetasters -- Beccadelli
-- Alberti's 'Philodoxus' -- Poliziano -- The 'Sylvæ' -- 'Nutricia,'
'Rusticus,' 'Manto,' 'Ambra' -- Minor Poems -- Pontano -- Sannazzaro
-- Elegies and Epigrams -- Christian Epics -- Vida's 'Christiad' --
Vida's 'Poetica' -- Fracastoro -- The 'Syphilis' -- _Barocco_
Flatteries -- Bembo -- Immoral Elegies -- Imitations of Ovid and
Tibullus -- The 'Benacus' -- Epitaphs -- Navagero -- Epigrams and
Eclogues -- Molsa -- Poem on his own Death -- Castiglione -- 'Alcon'
and 'Lycidas' -- Verses of Society -- The Apotheosis of the Popes --
Poem on the Ariadne of the Vatican -- Sadoleto's Verses on the Laocoon
-- Flaminio -- His Life -- Love of the Country -- Learned Friends --
Scholar-Poets of Lombardy -- Extinction of Learning in Florence --
Decay of Italian Erudition 324

CHAPTER IX