Chapter XC: Section 5: Belles Lettres

Note: The works of the humanists, theologians, biblical and classical scholars, historians, publicists and philosophers have been dealt with in other sections of this bibliography. Representative poets, dramatists and writers of fiction for the century (up to but not including the Age of Shakespeare in England or of Henry IV in France) are the following:

Italian: Ariosto, A. F. Grazzini, M. Bandello, T. Tasso, Berni, Guarini.

French: Margaret of Navarre, C. Marot, Rabelais, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, Montaigne.

English: Lyndesay, Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, anonymous poets in Tottel's Miscellany, Sidney, E. Spenser, Donne, Lyly, Heywood, Kyd, Peele, Greene, Lodge, Nash, Marlowe.

German: Hans Sachs, Fischart, T. Murner, anonymous Till Eulenspiegel and Faustbuch, B. Waldis.

Spanish: The Picaresque novel, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades.

Portuguese: Camoens.

As it is not my purpose to give even a sketch of literary history, but merely to illustrate the temper of the times from the contemporary belles lettres, only a few suggestive works of criticism can be mentioned here.

H. Hallam: _Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries_. 1838-9. (Old, but still useful).

J. A. Symonds: _Italian Literature_. 1888.

G. Lanson: _Histoire de la littérature française_.[9] 1906.

C. H. C. Wright: _A History of French Literature_. 1912.

C. Thomas: _A History of German Literature_. 1909.

E. Wolff: _Faust und Luther_. 1912.

_The Cambridge History of English Literature_, vol. iii, Renaissance and Reformation. 1908.

J. J. Jusserand: _Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais_. Tome ii, De la Renaissance à la Guerre Civile. 1904. (Also English translation: a beautiful work).

Winifred Smith: _The Commedia dell' Arte_. 1912. (Notable).

A. Tilley: _The Literature of the French Renaissance_. 2 vols. 1904.