INTRODUCTION

TO THE

LITERATURE OF EUROPE,

IN THE

FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH

CENTURIES.

BY HENRY HALLAM, LL.D., F.R.A.S.,

FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

De modo autem hujusmodi historia conscribendæ, illud im primis monemus, ut
materia et copia ejus, non tantum ab historiis et criticis petatur, verum etiam per
singulas annorum centurias, aut etiam minora intervalla, seriatim libri præcipui,
qui eo temporis spatio conscripti sunt, in consilium adhibeantur; ut ex eorum non
perlectione (id enim infinitum quiddam esset), sed degustatione, et observatione
argumenti, styli, methodi, genius illius temporis literarius, veluti incantatione
quadam, a mortuis evocetur.-BACON de Augm, Scient.

SEVENTH EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.-VOL. II.

WITH PORTRAIT.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,

1864.

The right of Translation is reserved.

AND CHARING CROSS,

CONTENTS

THE SECOND VOLUME.

ON THE LITERATURE OF THE LATTER HALF OF THE SIXTEENTH

CENTURY.

CHAPTER I.

HISTORY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE IN EUROPE FROM 1550 TO 1600.

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