CONTENTS:

PART 1: THE CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
1. Learning and Ideas
2. Literary Criticism
Italy – France – Spain
3. Fine Arts
4. Reform and Schism
The Return to the Gospels – Luther – Zwingli – Calvin
5. The Empire of Charles V and His Successors
6. The Beginnings of European Nationalism

PART 2: POETRY
1. Epic Poetry
Italy – Ariosto – Trissino and Bernardo Tasso – Torquato Tasso
France
Spain and Portugal – Ercilla – Camoes
2. Lyric and Pastoral Poetry
3. Religious and Philosophical Poetry

PART 3: DRAMA
1. Italy
Tragedy
Comedy
Pastorak
2. France
Tragedy
Comedy
3. Spain
4. Germany

PART 4: PROSE FICTION
1. France
Rabelais
short Stories
2. Italy
Short Stories
3. Spain
La Celestina
Amadis de Gaula
The Picaresque Novel
The Pastoral Novel
4. Germany
Till Eulenspiegel, Dr Faust, Fortunatus, Wickram, Fischart

PART 5: THE LITERATURE OF IDEAS AND MANNERS
1. The Literature of Ideas and Manners in Italy
Machiavelli
2. Erasmus
3. Utopia
4. German Satire
5. Luther
6. Paracelsus and Franck
7. Calvin
8. French Satire
9. Vives
10. Spanish Satire
11. Juan de Valdes
12. Spanish Religious Writers
13. Spanish Essayists
14. Montaigne

PART 6: POPULAR LITERATURE
1. Germany
Brant – Murber – Sachs – folksong and hymn
2. Italy
Commedia dell’Arte
3. France
4. Spain