A History of Literary Criticism

Appendices

Appendix a Chronological Table of the Chief Critical Works of the Sixteenth Century

Date	Italy	Date	France	Date	England
1527	Vida: De Arte Poetica.			c. 1524	Cox: Rhetoric.
1529	Trissino: Poetica, pts. i.-iv.
1535	Dolce: trans. of Horace’s Ars Poetica.
1536	Pazzi: transl. of Aristotle’s Poetics.
1536	Daniello: Poetica.
1539	Tolomei: Versi e Regole della Nuova Poesia.	1545	Pelletier: trans. of Horace’s Ars Poetica.
1548	Robortelli: ed. of Aristotle’s Poetics.	1548	Sibilet: Art Poétique.
1549	Segni: transl. of Aristotle’s Poetics.	1549	Du Bellay: Défense et Illustration.
1550	Maggi: ed. of Aristotle’s Poetics.			1553	Wilson: Rhetoric.
1551	Muzio: Arte Poetica.
1554	Giraldi Cintio: Discorsi.	1554	Pelletier: Art Poétique.
1559	Minturno: De Poeta.	1555	Morel: ed. of Aristotle’s Poetics.
				1567	Drant: transl. of Horace’s Ars Poetica.
1560	Vettori: ed. of Aristotle’s Poetics.	1560	Pasquier: Recherches.
1561	Scaliger: Poetics.	1561	[Scaliger: Poetics.]	1570	Ascham: Scholemaster.
1563	Trissino: Poetica, pts. v., vi.			1575	Gascoigne: Notes of Instruction.
1564	Minturno: Arte Poetica.
1570	Castelvetro: ed. of Aristotle’s Poetics.	1565	Ronsard: Abrégé de l’Art Poétique.	1579	Gosson: School of Abuse.
				1579	Lodge: Reply to Gosson.
1575	Piccolomini: ed. of Aristotle’s Poetics.	1572	Jean de la Taille: preface of Saül.	1580	Harvey and Spenser: Letters.
				c. 1583	Sidney: Defence of Poesy (publ. 1595).
1579	Viperano: De Arte Poetica.	1572	Ronsard: preface of Franciade.
1586	Patrizzi: Della Poetica.			1585	James VI.: Reulis and Cautelis.
1587	T. Tasso: Discorsi dell’ Arte Poetica.	1573	Jacques de la Taille: treatise on French classical metres.
				1586	Webbe: Discourse of English Poetrie.
1588	Denores: Poetica.
1597	Buonamici: Discorsi Poetici.	1598	De Laudun: Art Poétique françois.	1589	Puttenham: Arte of English Poesie.
1598	Ingegneri: Poesia Rappresentativa.
		—	Vauquelin: Art Poétique.	1591	Harington: Apologie of Poetrie.
1600	Summo: Discorsi Poetici.