Renaissance may be a rebirth of old ideas in a new context, but which ideas get to be reborn?

While the influence of Aristotle is most clearly seen in the new emphasis on plot construction and characterization, the importance the renaissance attached to style is in no small measure a survival of the mediaeval tradition of classical rhetoric.

A renaissance is a dimensional leap, when our perspective shifts so dramatically that our understanding of the oldest, most fundamental elements of existence changes.

Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation.

The first renaissance was the Irish, centuries before a gleam showed in Italy or in France.

By definition the renaissance was primarily a literary and scholarly movement derived from the literature of classical antiquity.

They do maintain that the Italian Renaissance was really the German Renaissance, pure Germans having Italian names when they were painters, as cockneys sometimes have when they are hair-dressers.

Understood this way, a renaissance is a moment of reframing.

At the present moment, there is reason to fear, or to rejoiceaccording to one's individual leaningsthat the Religion of Beauty is gaining upon its ancient rival; for perhaps never since the Renaissance has there been such a widespread impulse to assert Beauty and Joy as the ideals of human life.

Certainly that remarkable man was an "epicurean"but one, to quote Meredith, "whom Epicurus would have scourged out of his garden"; and the statement made by the critic in question that The Renaissance is the book referred to in The Picture of Dorian Gray as having had a sinister influence over its hero is so easily disposed of by a reference to that romance itself that it is hard to understand its ever having been made.

The renaissance was a prodigy that made onlookers exclamatory.

The Renaissance was one such period.