ic form with Italian writers of the sixteenth century as with those
of the three preceding centuries. The Italian poets whose sonnets, after
those of Petrarch, were best known in England and France in the later
years of the sixteenth century were Serafino dell' Aquila (1466-1500),
Jacopo Sannazzaro (1458-1530), Agnolo Firenzuola (1497-1547), Cardinal
Bembo (1470-1547), Gaspara Stampa (1524-1553), Pietro Aretino
(1492-1557), Bernardo Tasso (1493-1568), Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568),
Gabriello Fiamma (_d._ 1585), Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Luigi Groto
(_fl._ 1570), Giovanni Battista Guarini (1537-1612), and Giovanni
Battista Marino (1565-1625) (cf. Tiraboschi's _Storia della Letteratura
Italiana_, 1770-1782; Dr. Garnett's _History of Italian Literature_,
1897; and Symonds's _Renaissance in Italy_, edit. 1898, vols. iv. and
vi.) The notes to Watson's _Passionate Centurie of Love_, published in
1582 (see p. 103, note), to Davison's _Poetical Rhapsody_, edited by Mr.
A. H. Bullen in 1891, and to the _Poems of Drummond of Hawthornden_,
edited by Mr. W. C. Ward in 1894, give many illustrations of English
sonnetteers' indebtedness to Serafino, Groto, Marino, Guarini, Tasso, and
other Italian sonnetteers of the sixteenth century.

{445} There are modern reprints of most of these books, but not of all.
There is a good reprint of Ronsard's works, edited by M. P. Blanchemain,
in _La Bibliotheque Elzevirienne_, 8 vols. 1867; the _Etude sur la Vie de
Ronsard_, in the eighth volume, is useful. The works of Remy Belleau are
issued in the same series. The writings of the seven original members of
'La Pleiade' are reprinted in _La Pleiade Francaise_, edited by
Marty-Laveaux, 16 vols., 1866-93. Maurice Seve's _Delie_ was reissued at
Lyons in 1862. Pierre de Brach's poems were carefully edited by Reinhold
Dezeimeris (2 vols., Paris, 1862). A complete edition of Desportes's
works, edited by Alfred Michiels, appeared in 1863. Prosper Blanchemain
edited a reissue of the works of Louise Labe in 1875. The works of Jean
de la Taille, of Amadis Jamyn, and of Guillaume des Autels are reprinted
in _Tresor des Vieux Poetes Francais_ (1877 et annis seq.) See
Sainte-Beuve's _Tableau Historique et Critique de la Poesie Francaise du
XVIe Siecle_ (Paris, 1893); Henry Francis Cary's _Early French Poets_
(London, 1846); Becq de Fouquieres' _OEuvres choisies des Poetes Francais
du XVIe Siecle contemporains avec Ronsard_ (1880), and the same editor's