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Suggested edit to the sentence "The term rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists (c. 1550), anglicized as the Renaissance in the 1830s." in the introduction section of the article.

I suggest this be changed to "The term rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists (c. 1550), the corresponding French word, renaissance, was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s."

Why: The term 'renaissance' is not an anglicisation but a loan word from French, also meaning "rebirth". To be a pedant, "renascence" is technically the anglicised version, with usage from the 1720s. ResplendentMackerelSky (talk) 08:57, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Got any refs for that? Johnbod (talk) 17:07, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The French word "Renaissance" was first used by Jules Michelet in the middle of the 19th century.^[1]

Done Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 11:32, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

crazy postmodernism: "View of Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance"

Hi,

Anybody who's interested in the topic "renaissance", will be startled to see a HDR image among the few illustrations in the article.

What is wrong with that?

Just that is is no illustration. It doesn't illustrate anything. But instead of the period's classic images someone was able to push his / her (his) photo and place a checkmark in his weekly to do list, like, "insert a pic in the wikipedia article ✔"

The physical location does matter, but we refer to is as Italy.

The view that today's tourists can capture really don't belong in this article...

Please think about this...

(I've gotto go now)

--peter.josvai (talk) 19:04, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. The template already has an appropriate image representative of Renaissance. And image of modern Florence is already at a proper place down the article. --Altenmann >talk 18:33, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

^ Jerry Brotton (2006). The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-280163-0.

[Jerry_Brotton-1] Jerry Brotton (2006). The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-280163-0.

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