Excerpt from Stories From the Italian Poets Histoire Littéraire, etc. It is written with his usual grace, Vivacity, and acuteness, and contains a good no tice Of the Tasso controversy. As to the Pisan edition Of the works, it is the completest, I believe, in point Of con tents, ever published, comprises all the controversial criticism, and is, Of course, very useful; but it contains no life except Manso's now known to be very inconclu sive), has got a heap O feeble variorum comments on the Jerusalem, no notes worth speaking Of to the rest of the works, and, notwithstanding the claim in the title page to the merit Of a better order, has lefi the cor respondence in a deplorable state Of irregularity, as well as totally without elucidation. The learned Professor is an agreeable writer, and I believe a very pleasant man, but he certainly is a provoking editor. 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.