Abstract
Je. Spingarn was the first to observe the considerable influence exercised by Francesco De Sanctis (1818-1883), the Italian critic and literary historian, upon the work of John Addington Symonds. Reviewing in 1908 the new edition of De Sanctis’ study of Petrarch published by Benedetto Croce in 1907, Spingarn said:The name of Francesco de Sanctis is virtually unknown to English readers. A few casual phrases in Symonds's ‘Renaissance in Italy,’ and a friendly but wholly inadequate notice in Saintsbury's ‘History of Criticism,’ are almost the sole references to his work in our language. But with his ideas English-speaking people are more familiar than they suspect; for from his pages much that is illuminating in Symonds's treatment of Italian literature (including many of the most personal ‘impressions’) seems to have been directly transferred.
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