Text from a 16th century as a way to destroy any sense for a modern men

The text I’ve been given to read was really hard for me to understand. It is really old-fashioned. For nowadays people the extract has several points, making it unreadable and sense-destroying.

As a person, who has some experience in writing, I know what kind for text is interesting to read. One of the main rules can be easily found by reading something. It is about sentence length. It isn’t a big new for a writer: the sentence length depends on people’s feelings upon the text. It is boring to read one-length sentences. Also, it is hard to read huge, paragraph-big phrases. It is sense-destroying, and it is easy to lose what is it about while reading something that seems to have no end. The text I’ve been given has exactly those kinds of phrases in it. The first phrase is a quarter of the whole text! And it is not the only one, the third one looks pretty the same, for example.

One more thing to add: everything is written in a really old-fashion way. The extract is full of old or even obsolete words, which makes reading even more harder. It also has lots of synonyms. Some of the religious notes are showing text’s age too.

Actually, religious overtones could be seen not only in the words the author uses but also in the text motif. By saying it I mean the praising way of describing Raphael: author put all his adoration into it, praising the artist as much as he could. It looks fanatically. Like it is a religious sect or a cult of personality.

The text does not seem to have a critic in it or any analysis of Raphael’s artworks. Actually, that is because it is not that much about the artworks, more about the person, and his good qualities. Of course, there are some words about art too, but yet, the main theme remains to be an exaltation of Raphael as a person. That’s why the text has almost no sense for me. Of course, all those gorgeous words show the writing style of old times, and what were the 16th centuries people (at least some of them) feeling about the artist. But it has minimum information. Even though the author magnifies Raphael, the text steel has no proofs for a reader to believe in his wonderfulness. It does not give an example why was he modest, which situation shows that? Same with all other beautiful words.

So what could I say about the text? It seems to be clear now – it has no information for me, concentrated in words. The only knowledge it could give is located behind the text, in its style, old terms, in history what is behind it. But I am not the persons who would find those interesting. I need text to be good, to find more about it, but not empty, to make a search just to find at least something.