This work is a fragment from my yet unpublished book “Ars Poetica”. This large study, along with various problems of cultural studies, literary theory, historical poetics and comparative studies, examines questions about the genesis of the Renaissance and the connections between Russian literature of the 19th–20th centuries and the literary work of this period, which is the key to understanding all of modern European humanism. In the named study, Russian lyric poetry (F.I. Tyutchev, A.A. Blok and other Russian poets) and fiction (F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.A. Bulgakov and other Russian prose writers) are understood in the context of the works of Dante Alighieri, F. Petrarch, M. Cervantes, W. Shakespeare. The focus of this work, as the title indicates, is on the sacred origins of modern European humanism, the character of which was decisively determined by the work of Dante, and on the reflection of the problems associated with the literature of the early Renaissance in the works of Tyutchev and Blok. But the work also touches on the broader question of the significance of the early Renaissance for our era of the “collapse of humanism,” which I call the era of the limit (predel).