Présentation de l'éditeur
We owe, perhaps, an apology to the public, and especially to its infallible and unprejudiced advisers in all matters of taste the critics for having presumed to undertake this ambitious literary work. Knowing but too well the vast influence exercised by Morgante over mankind, we are repeatedly haunted by an uneasy suspicion of the just indignation which will probably be aroused against us for this our temerity. A ssuredly, we shall be told that so notorious a history ought to be written by some person of recognised scientific and literary status, not by an unknown individual incapable of investing with due authority and importance so weighty a subject, and at all events in sad danger of exposing the same to a share of ridicule, by the fact that he, the author, is never safe from the crushing taunt of being called an amateur. Therefore by way of excuse we may crave indulgence to put forward the following explanations. In the first place, it is very probable that, unless we had undertaken the work, it would have been put off for a very long time perhaps, indeed, for ever by reason of the prodigious literary ability and fertile stock of ideas of our living wiiters, especially the journalists, who, intent upon masterpieces of their own creation, can hardly be expected to give attention to aught else.
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