SPECIMENS OF THE ITALIAN TRAGEDIANS.

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IN speaking of the purest authors of the Italian school of tragedy, it would be unpardonable to pass over Scipio Maffei, the earliest tragic writer, worthy of the name, that Italy possessed, and who ought, in strict propriety, to have been brought to notice in this series of specimens, before Alfieri;--not only because he flourished long before the latter, but also because the writings of Maffei have supplied models and matter to the succeeding poets, both of Italy and France. To him may be awarded the praise of having emancipated his countrymen from the self-imposed, yet not less galling yoke, which a too rigid, and even slavish adherence to the rules of the ancient models, had fixed upon them.