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1903 L. Douglas et al. Hist. Painting Italy (ed. 2) I. vi. 188 Dante..probably knew little or nothing of the achievement of the few great masters of the Roman proto-Renaissance.

1945 Burlington Mag. Jan. 23/2 Such, however, was the popular ‘proto-Renaissance’ in our country.

1988 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 40 29 The beginnings of the Renaissance (in the sense of the revival of arts and letters), now called the ‘proto-Renaissance’, were located around the eleventh century, with the flowering of Pisa.