Romance (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from RomanceI bought a copy of the same story as a chap-book in Madrid, and think there must be something in it to have lasted so long. In Italy you may still find I Reali di Francia on bookstalls, alongside of the realists of France, and you may remember the Old story Of the man found weeping in an Italian market-place because he had just heard from a reciter the news of the death of Roland. It was from tastes and interests of that sort that the Orlando grew to its poetical form with Boiardo and Ariosto, and so the old Italian audiences and the story-tellers of the market-place have their share in Spenser's Faerie Queene, together with the family of Sir Thopas, as Warton has shown. In J usserand's English Novel in the Time of Shakeweare we may trace the fortunes of many of the old books of chivalry, Mr. Firth, in his introduction to the Pilgrim's Progress, has made out the debt of Bunyan to Sir Bevis of Southampton - one of the pleasantest of demonstrations, in a kind of science which is often horribly abused by dull people, but not on that account to be rejected.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.