Castelvetro's Theory of Poetry (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Castelvetro's Theory of Poetry The subject of this little book was suggested by Professor Vaughan as the outcome of his course of lectures in the University of Leeds on the History of Criticism, and the award of a Fellowship by the Senate of the same University enabled me to carry out the suggestion. There are perhaps many reasons to justify a choice of Castelvetro for such exposition as is here attempted, and among them is the fact that his Poetica d'Aristotele is very difficult to get hold of, for though a German scholar, Richard Otto, mentions casually four reprints (1582, 1678, 1827, 1831 - the last in Milan) since the second edition (1576), I cannot trace any of them. Moreover, Castelvetro has not been expounded in full, beyond Professor Fusco's book alluded to in the text, and in addition, a brief treatment by Cavazzuti to which Professor Vaughan has drawn my attention, but which I have not yet seen, there seems to be no book which deals with him fully and individually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.