CHAPTER VI.. The Description of Nations and Cities.

THE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONS AND CITIES.

The ‘Dittamondo’ 339

Descriptions in the sixteenth century 339

CHAPTER VII.

DESCRIPTION OF THE OUTWARD MAN.

Boccaccio on Beauty 344

Ideal of Firenzuola 345

His general definitions 345

CHAPTER VIII.

DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE IN MOVEMENT.

Æneas Sylvius and others 349

Conventional bucolic poetry from the time of Petrarch 350

Genuine poetic treatment of country life 351

Battista Mantovano, Lorenzo Magnifico, Pulci 352

Angelo Poliziano 353

Man, and the conception of humanity 354

Pico della Mirandola on the dignity of man 354