Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Saint Bernadine of Siena
HE Italian Renaissance, although not yet at the zenith of its splendour, had nevertheless during the fifteenth century attained perhaps a degree of greater freshness and spontaneity, of a superior and more exquisite charm. The star of antiquity was slowly rising with a lustre hitherto unknown, piercing the clouds of medieval obscurantism, and enthralling the minds of men to the sole doctrine, which purported to have rediscovered the lost secret of aesthetic beauty, and to have paved the way for intellectual emancipation. And yet Humanism can scarcely, strictly speaking, be looked upon as a new movement in Italy, since it arose there rather as a revival of a classic past never wholly obliterated from memory and traces of which still covered the soil.
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