Renaissance in Italy, volume 1 (Of 7)

The main work of John Addington Symonds, an English poet and literary critic, who was the author of numerous books on the epoch of Renaissance. Though these books taken together and in the order planned by the author form one connected study of Italian culture at a certain period of history, still each aims at a completeness of its own, and each can be read independently of its companions. That the author does not regard acquaintance with any one of them as essential to a profitable reading of a