Transcriber's Note: This e-book was prepared from a 1960 G.P.Putnam's Sons reprint of the 1900 edition of The Revival ofLearning, originally published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, asVolume II of John Addington Symonds's Renaissance in Italy series.The other volumes in the series areThe Age of the Despots (Volume I),The Fine Arts (Volume III),Italian Literature, Part I (Volume IV),Italian Literature, Part II (Volume V), andThe Catholic Reaction, Parts I and II (Volumes VI and VII).Links in this e-book to these and other workson Project Gutenberg are not guaranteed to work in perpetuity.

Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Other errorsare indicated by red dotted underlining with a pop-up Transcriber's Note.A list of these notes can be found at the end of this e-book.Older spellings of Italian names (e.g. "Lionardo" for "Leonardo") have been retained as theyappear in the original.

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