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다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

  THE character of Italian poetry has become essentially changed during the last century. To the dry and superstitious imitation of those who aspired to tread in the steps of the early writers, and the puerile conceits which distinguished the age of the seicentisti, has succeeded the reign of a purer taste and a more rational philosophy. A wider intercourse with other civilized nations, and the increase of that commerce of mind which so accelerates the march of improvement in any department of knowledge, have no doubt contributed principally to produce the effect; to such causes being added the influence of original and independent minds, in which Italy was so fruitful during the eighteenth century.