. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . <4>^=S ITALIAN LITERATURE. Period IV. 1600-1700 ETRARCH, by the polished perfection of hissonnets, and Boccaccio, by the light-heartedW^s I gayety of his merry tales, set to their ingeniouspleasure-loving countrymen examples whichthey have never been weary in imitating. Every gen-tleman of any pretensions to wit or learning mustbecome a Petrarchist or a Boccaccist. At times the fashionof composing sonnets has been carried to ridiculous more ambitious spirits there were also longer canzoni an
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . <4>^=S ITALIAN LITERATURE. Period IV. 1600-1700 ETRARCH, by the polished perfection of hissonnets, and Boccaccio, by the light-heartedW^s I gayety of his merry tales, set to their ingeniouspleasure-loving countrymen examples whichthey have never been weary in imitating. Every gen-tleman of any pretensions to wit or learning mustbecome a Petrarchist or a Boccaccist. At times the fashionof composing sonnets has been carried to ridiculous more ambitious spirits there were also longer canzoni andodes. Giambattista Marini (i569-1625) with his extravagantpoetic conceits outdid Petrarch and had numerous follow-ers, known as Marinists. His chief work, Adone, a kindof epic on Adonis, won him a pension and the title of cava-liere from the king of France. An example of his exag-gerated antithesis is found in his description of Love, whichis thus translated: Lynx reft of light, a blindfold Argus,suckling old man and aged little boy, ignorant yet learned,naked yet armed. Equally artificial and fantastic was the school of the Arca-dia
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