The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.
When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?