BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY.

HISTORY OF PROSE FICTION.

BY

JOHN COLIN DUNLOP.

A NEW EDITION

REVISED WITH NOTES, APPENDICES, AND INDEX.

BY

HENRY WILSON.

VOL. II: :

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

800,3
WO

- copia

CHISWICK PRESS :--C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,

CHANCERY LANE.

1952

CONTENTS

CHAPTER VII.

PAGE

Origin of Italian tales-Fables of Bidpai—Seven Wise Masters-

Gesta Romanorum-Contes et Fabliaux-Cento Novelle An-

tiche-Decameron of Boccaccio . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER VIII.

Italian imitators of Boccaccio-Sacchetti-Ser Giovanni-Mas.

suecio-Sabadino-Giraldi Cinthio-Straparola—Bandello-

Malespini, etc.-French imitators . . . . . .

149

CHAPTER IX.

Origin of Spiritual Romance-Legenda Aurea-Contes Dévots-

Guerino Meschino-Lycidas et Cleorithe-Romans de Camus,

etc.- Pilgrim's Progress . . . . . . . . 247

CHAPTER X.

Comic Romance-Works of Rabelais–Vita di Bertoldo-Don

Quixote-Gusman D'Alfarache-Marcos de Obregon-Roman

Comique, etc.- Political Romance -Utopia-Argenis-Sethos,

etc. · · · · · · · · · · · : 297

CHAPTER XI.

Pastoral Romance-Sannazzaro's Arcadia-Montemayor's Diana

-D'Urfé's Astrée-Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia . . .

360

CHAPTER XII.

Heroic Romance-Polexandre-Cleopatra-Cassandra-Ibrabim

-Clélie, etc. . . . . . . . . . . 403