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Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ction, forinstance, we have to consider mainly the sculpture of theEarly and Middle Italian Renaissance, and shall find ourselvesoccupied mainly with Tuscan sculptors. We have already noted that the new Tuscan sculpture, evenin the days of Niccolo and Giovanni Pisano, was no mereimitation of ancient models. It drew its sap, so to speak,from the old stock, but was a new graft; and later we find,as it were, a luxuriant outgrowth from many and variousgrafts—^for there are specific differences between not a few ofthe Quattrocento sculptors. Thus Delia Querela seems to anti-cipate Michelangelo in strength and in a beauty that is thecreation of strength ; Ghiberti we might almost call, at leastas regards his later work, a painter in bronze ; Donatellosvivid, vigorous naturalism has an undeniable originality; ^ Michelangelo outlived the beginning of this decline, to which he haddoubtless contributed. He died in 1564—and in the same year modernscience was born in the person of Galileo.414
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