IT is a long time since Lessing refuted the forgotten critic who maintained that good poetry must furnish good subjects for illustration; and the principle laid down in the Laocoön, to the effect that ...

For the last three years, colleagues from The University of Manchester, University of Leeds and University of Oxford have been working together on a project researching the commentary tradition of the ...

"(Ital.) Rome. Petrarch's father throwing the poet's books into the fire. 19 x 25. Petrarch's father, angered at the boy's love for the classics rather than for the study of law, to which he destined ...