id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2229 Renaissance Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 1519 219 57 Find sources: "Renaissance Latin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Ad fontes ("to the sources") was the general cry of the Renaissance humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the medieval Latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had acquired in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire. Renaissance Latin gradually developed into the New Latin of the 16th–19th centuries, used as the language of choice for authors discussing subjects considered sufficiently important to merit an international (i.e., pan-European) audience. Renaissance Latin works and authors[edit] Incunables by language.[1] Latin dominated printed book production in the 15th century by a wide margin. "The Tools of the Trade: A Few Remarks on Editing Renaissance Latin Texts." Humanistica Lovaniensia 54: 345-58. Latin-language literature Articles containing Latin-language text ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2229.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2229.txt