Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text from the renaissance
Preface
Pico Della Mirandola
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo Da Vinci
The School of Giorgione
Joachim Du Bellay from Winckelmann
Conclusion from appreciations
Style
Wordsworth from Coleridge
Charles Lamb
Sir Thomas Browne from Shakespeare’s English Kings
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Postscript from plato and platonism extracts from chapters 1 to 5:
i. Three Kinds of Criticism ii. “Perpetual Flux”
iii. The Eleatic School
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