Renaissance Latin

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Renaissance Latin
Mural of Dante in the Uffizi Gallery, by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450.
Native to	No native speakers, used by the administrations and universities of numerous countries
Region	Europe
Era	Evolved from Medieval Latin in the 14th century; creating Neo-Latin used until present
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Renaissance Latin
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Italic Proto-Latino-Faliscan Old Latin Classical Latin Late Latin Medieval Latin
Writing system	Latin alphabet
Official status
Official language in	Most Roman Catholic countries
Regulated by	The community of scholars at the earliest universities
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Renaissance Latin is a name given to the distinctive form of Literary Latin style developed during the European Renaissance of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, particularly by the Renaissance humanism movement. This style of Latin is regarded as the first phase of the standardised and grammatically "Classical" Neo-Latin which continued through the 16th–19th centuries,^[1][2][3] and was used as the language of choice for authors discussing subjects considered sufficiently important to merit an international (i.e., pan-European) audience.