As it is not my purpose to give even a sketch of literary history, but
merely to illustrate the temper of the times from the contemporary
belles lettres, only a few suggestive works of criticism can be
mentioned here.

H. Hallam: _Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th
and 17th Centuries_. 1838-9. (Old, but still useful).

J. A. Symonds: _Italian Literature_. 1888.

G. Lanson: _Histoire de la litterature francaise_.[9] 1906.

C. H. C. Wright: _A History of French Literature_. 1912.

C. Thomas: _A History of German Literature_. 1909.

E. Wolff: _Faust und Luther_. 1912.

_The Cambridge History of English Literature_, vol. iii, Renaissance
and Reformation. 1908.

J. J. Jusserand: _Histoire Litteraire du Peuple Anglais_. Tome ii, De
la Renaissance a la Guerre Civile. 1904. (Also English translation: a
beautiful work).

Winifred Smith: _The Commedia dell' Arte_. 1912. (Notable).

A. Tilley: _The Literature of the French Renaissance_. 2 vols. 1904.

CHAPTER XIV

THE REFORMATION INTERPRETED

The purpose of the following list is not to give the titles of all
general histories of the Reformation, but of those books and articles
in which some noteworthy contribution has been made to the
philosophical interpretation of the events. Many an excellent work of
pure narrative character, and many of those dealing with some
particular phase of the Reformation, are omitted. All the noteworthy
historical works published prior to 1600 are listed in the bibliography
to Chapter XII, section 2, and are not repeated here. The
chronological order is here adopted, save that all the works of each
writer are grouped together. In every case I enter the book under the
year in which it first appeared, adding in parentheses the edition, if
another, which I have used.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Essay lviii; also Essays i, iii, xxxv; Novum
Organum Bk. i, aphorisms xv and lxv; Advancement of Learning, Bk. ix,
and i.

Jacques-Auguste de Thou (Thuanus): _Historiae sui temporis_. 1604-20.

Hugo Grotius: _Annales et historiae de rebus belgicis_. 1657.
(Written 1611 ff).

William Camden: _Annales Rerum Anglicarnm et Hibernicarum regnante
Elizabetha_. Pars I, 1615; Pars II, 1625.

Agrippa d'Aubigne: _Histoire Universelle_. 1616-20.

Paolo Sarpi: _Istoria del Concilio Tridentino_. 1619. (P. Sarpi:
Histoire du Concile du Trente, French translation by Amelot de la
Houssaie. 1699).

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