The Bolognese Academy in painting.

After these men expand arid wildernesses of the Sei Cento--barocco architecture, false taste, frivolity, grimace, affectation--Jesuitry translated into culture.

On one bright point, indeed, the eye rests with hope and comfort.
Palestrina, when he died in 1594, did not close but opened an age for music.

His posterity, those composers, lutists, violists and singers, from whom the modern art of arts has drawn her being, down to the sweet fellowship of Pergolese, Marcello and Jomelli, of Guarneri, Amati and Stradivari, of Farinelli, Caffarielli and La Romanina, were as yet but rising dimly heralded with light of dawn upon their foreheads.
In making the transition from the _Gerusalemme_ to the _Adone_, from the last great poem of the Cinque Cento to the epic of the Sei Cento, it is indispensable that notice should be taken of the _Pastor Fido_ and its author.

Giambattista Guarini forms a link between Vasso and the poets of the seventeenth century.