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Excerpt from Histoire des Italiens, Vol. 3 Après Auguste la littérature fut plutôt, à vrai dire anéantie que corrompue; car, si l'on excepte Phedre dont l'authenticité est douteuse, on ne voit pas, durant un demi - siècle un seul écri vain romain; cependant la protection et les encouragements ne manquaient point. 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.