Excerpt from The Early Renaissance in England: The Rede Lecture, Delivered in the Senaate-House on June 13, 1895

The Renaissance is a familiar theme, and its history in Italy has been elaborately studied of late years. Perhaps so much has been written about it that itskmain features have been somewhat obscured. Italy was the home of the Renaissance movement, and attention has been chie¿y given to the most exaggerated forms which it there assumed, while its simpler, I might almost say its normal, development, has been somewhat overlooked. Let me try and put before you in its simplest form the chief object of that intellectual movement which we have agreed to call the Renaissance.

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