Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
Henry Hallam
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Unhr. Digitized by Google S86 LITERATURE OP EUROPE [PabtIIL period he finds many single words as well as phrases not agreeable to the usage of more ancient authors. As to the moderns, the Transalpine writers, he says (speaking as an Italian), are always deficient in purity; they mingle the phraseology of different ages as preposterously as if they were to write Greek in a confusion of dialects ; they affect obscurity, a broken structure of periods, a studied use of equivocal terms. This is part...icularly perceived in the school of Lipsius, whose own faults, however, are redeemed by many beauties even of style. # The Italians, on the contrary, he proceeds to say, read nothing but what is worthy of imi- tation, and shun every expression that can impair the clearness * Transalpinis bominibus ex quoti- diano Latini sermonis inter ipse* usu, inulta sive barbara?, sive plebeiae ae de- terioris note, sic adherescere solent, ut postea cum stylum arripuere, de Latini- tate eorum dubitare nequaquam iis in mentem veniat.
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