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Excerpt from Three Prose Writers Of The Italian Renaissance: Edited With An Introduction And Notes The transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance may be compared to a great picture Which has been thrown upon a screen, and Which gradually dissolves into another picture differing only slightly from the first one. So gradual, indeed, is the process of blending that it is difiicult to say just where the first picture ends and the sec ond begins. Thus in this great historic transition, the decaying elements of the earlier period mingled for a time With the germs of the new era. John Addington Symonds has summed up the situation as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."