Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction

RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
THE CATHOLIC REACTION
In Two Parts BY
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1887 AUTHOR'S EDITION
PART I
PREFACE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER_I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI FOOTNOTES
PART II
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV INDEX FOOTNOTES
PREFACE
At the end of the second volume of my 'Renaissance in Italy' I indulged the hope that I might live to describe the phase of culture which closed that brilliant epoch. It was in truth demanded that a work pretending to display the manifold activity of the Italian genius during the 15th century and the first quarter of the 16th, should also deal with the causes which interrupted its further development upon the same lines. This study, forming a logically-necessitated supplement to the five former volumes of 'Renaissance in Italy,' I have been permitted to complete. The results are now offered to the public in these two parts. So far as it was possible, I have conducted my treatment of the Catholic Revival on a method analogous to that adopted for the Renaissance. I found it, however, needful to enter more minutely into details regarding facts and institutions connected with the main theme of national culture. The Catholic Revival was by its nature reactionary. In order to explain its influences, I have been compelled to analyze the position of Spain in the Italian ...