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120 of the race from which they sprung. How good they are may be seen from a few of the specimens so admirably rendered by John Addington Symonds: —

Two other leading poetical figures of the fifteenth century, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Luigi Pulci, authors of the Orlando Innamorato and the Morgante Maggiore, will be best treated along with the writers of chivalrous