Giordano Bruno between Tragedy and Comedy

and those that treat of the comparison between poetry and painting do so from the writer's point of view, whereas it is one of the peculiar characteristics of the scene in Timon that it is the painter who has the last word. The English writers on poetry of this period seem not to consider the likenesses between the two arts, and nowhere in the works of the ancients is there talk of actual rivalry between them.' It is far more likely that the subject was discussed in the intellectual circles in which