Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7)

PART I

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1888

PREFACE.

This work on the Renaissance in Italy, of which I now give the last two volumes to the public, was designed and executed on the plan of an essay or analytical inquiry, rather than on that which is appropriate to a continuous history. Each of its four parts--the _Age of the Despots_, the _Revival of Learning...