发生在文艺复兴时期意大利的明屠尔诺与钦提奥的古今之争和发生在中国明朝的前、后七子的古今之辨，是其中两个具有代表性的事件。
The debates about ancientness and modernness between Minturno and Cinthio in the Italian Renaissance and seven men of letters in the Ming Dynasty of China are the two typical ones .
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