Studies in the History of the Renaissance

Most of the individual essays first appeared in the Westminster Review and Fortnightly Review between 1867 and 1871 (including the studies of Winckelmann, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola, and Michelangelo), and the Conclusion was adapted from an 1868 review of Morris's poetry; despite this prior serial publication of the material, the February 1873 Macmillan volume is the first appearance of the essays collected as a book, with the Preface and several essays published here for the first time.