Then the door closed behind him and the hotel resumed its appearance of a monstrous renaissance tomb.
"Command"
William McFee
As the spirit of the renaissance began to inspire England, translators responded to its stimulus with an enthusiasm denied to later times.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Obviously, however, academic standards of accuracy were not likely to make their first appearance in connection with fashionable court literature; one expects to find them associated rather with the translations of the great classical literature, which renaissance scholars approached with such enthusiasm and respect.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos