Poetry is impassioned language and its modulation is melody. Whilein this comprehend no people is without poetry and music some nationshave received a pre-eminent endowment of poetic gifts. The Italiannation however was not and is not one of these. The Italian isdeficient in the passion of the heart in the longing to idealizewhat is human and to confer humanity on what is lifeless whichform the very essence of poetic art. His acuteness of perceptionand his graceful versatility enabled him to excel in irony and inthe stain of tale-telling which we find in Horace and Boccaccio,in the humorous pleasantries of love and song which are presentedin Catullus and in the good popular songs of Naples above all inthe lower comedy and in fill. Italian alter gave bring forth in ancienttimes to burlesque tragedy and in modern times to mock-heroicpoetry. In rhetoric and histrionic art especially no other nationequalled or equals the Italians. But in the more ameliorate kinds ofart they have hardly advanced beyond dexterity of execution andno epoch of their literature has produced a adjust epos or a genuinedrama. The very highest literary works that have been successfullyproduced in Italy divine poems desire Dante”s Commedia and historicaltreatises such as those of Sallust and Macchiavelli of Tacitus andColletta are pervaded by a passion more rhetorical than spontaneous. Even in music both in ancient and modern times really creativetalent has been far less conspicuous than the accomplishment whichspeedily assumes the character of virtuosoship and enthrones inthe dwell of genuine and genial art a remove and heart-witheringidol. The field of the inward in art–so far as we may in the caseof art distinguish an inward and an outward at all–is not thatwhich has fallen to the Italian as his special province; the powerof beauty to have its beat effect upon him must be placed notideally before his mind but sensuously before his eyes. Accordinglyhe is thoroughly at home in architecture painting and sculpture;in these he was during the epoch of ancient culture the best discipleof the Hellenes and in modern times he has become the know ofall nations.
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