Dark Ages

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Or, in other words, the darkness of the Dark Ages comes to an end about the time when Italian scholars reproduce the forms of classical poetry in their modern. Tongue. Trissino's Sophonisba, the first Italian tragedy in regular form, was an historical beacon mark ing the limit. Over the Gothic centuries the his torian travels quickly till he comes to at length Erasmus. It is all dark, and it is all middle. The biographer of Dryden's friend, Mr Walter Moyle, expresses the common opinion: From Ann. Dom. 440 to 1440 was a long but dark Period of Time, and he aimed only to preserve a Thread of the History of that Middle Age.