The Renaissance brought to 16th-century France an appreciation of the formal beauty of ancient Greek and Roman art. These writers were called humanists. A group of poets called La Pléiade rejected medieval poetic forms for those of ancient Greece and Italy. I personally prefer the fine art to the literary art from this period as well as others. And oh yeah...my response is not a direct quote from Wikipedia. That may be a crime but I know it's a sin.
