He set up the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, to support humanists and artists ( as the WPA once did ).

On a more positive side, his expedition did broaden contacts between French and Italian humanists, energizing French art and letters in the latter Renaissance.

The Swiss humanists wrote in Latin, as did also the Swiss Reformers, at any rate for the most part, though the Zürich Bible of 1531 is an exception.

Though the Carolingian minuscule was superseded by Gothic blackletter hands, it later seemed so thoroughly ' classic ' to the humanists of the early Renaissance that they took these old Carolingian manuscripts to be ancient Roman originals and modelled their Renaissance hand on the Carolingian one.

It has been proposed for eons, by various holistically or " soulistically " inclined scientists and humanists that consciousness is a phenomenon that escapes explanation in terms of brain components ; so here is a candidate at least.

The church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch comments about this: " Jerome translator of the Old Testament into Latin, mistaking particles of Hebrew, had turned this into a description of Moses wearing a pair of horns-and so the Lawgiver is frequently depicted in the art of the Western Church, even after humanists had gleefully removed the horns from the text of Exodus.

In Vienna, he changed his name to " Joachimus Vadianus "; like so many other humanists, he preferred a Latin name to express his admiration for the classic masters.

Walter occasionally wrote or spoke about how secular humanists might face death – he had done so himself.

He also worked on the Citizen's Justice Committee and played a principal part in resisting and investigating the excesses of the period, including the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots, and human rights violations in the Punjab, Kashmir, and the North-East .. His refusal to consider kashmiri pandits who had fled valley in 1990 as human right victims caused much controversy and led to his dubbing as " Terrorists ' defender in chief " as he regularly attacked Indian army for fake encounters and extra judicial killings. In 1995, he departed from his earlier stand of considering firing by police as human rights violation and defended UP government in Muzaffarnagar police firing and rape on Uttarakhand state demand activists on 2 October 1994 in Supreme Court. His volte face was noted by honourable bench with humour and he won the case with court ruling that there was not adequate evidence of wilful human rights violation by State government. But it led to his breaking ranks with radical humanists.

He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet " Prince of the Humanists "; he has been called " the crowning glory of the Christian humanists ".

The iconograhic program of frescoes expressing the glory of the Farnese were worked out by the humanists in Farnese's court, notably his secretary, Annibale Caro ; The fresco cycles portray the exploits of Alexander the Great, and of course of the Farnese themselves: in the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani ( the Room of Farnese Deeds ), decorated by the brothers Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, the Farnese are depicted at all their most glorious moments, from floor to coffered ceiling.

Also during this time he took part in the movement of humanists, writers, musicians and scholars of the ancient world who formed the Florentine Camerata, the group which gathered at the home of Count Giovanni de ' Bardi, and which was dedicated to recovering the supposed lost glory of ancient Greek dramatic music.

Flavio and fellow humanists like Leone Battista Alberti began to explore and document the architecture, topography and history of Rome, and in the process revived a vision of Rome's former glory.

Volunteering his own time and resources to establish the initial infrastructure, Khyentse Norbu inspired others around the world, regardless of spiritual traditions, to help White Lotus become a global volunteer network of like-minded humanists.

In the Renaissance, the Italian humanists, who in many respects continued the grammatical and rhetorical traditions of the Middle Ages, rechristened the old Trivium with a new and more ambitious name: Studia humanitatis, and also increased its scope.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

The events that caused Bucer to leave the Dominican order arose from his embrace of new ideas and his growing contact with other humanists and reformers.

In addition, the writings of English humanists like Thomas More and Thomas Elyot helped bring the ideas and attitudes associated with the new learning to an English audience.

Studia Humanitatis was the new curriculum founded in the Early Modern Era by humanists.

Several Renaissance humanists ( working with publishers ) proposed reforms in French orthography, the most famous being Jacques Peletier du Mans who developed a phonemic-based spelling system and introduced new typographic signs ( 1550 ).

The theme came naturally to Renaissance humanists who were often homines novi rising by their own wits in a network of noble courts that depended on the highly literate new men to run increasingly complicated chancelries and create the cultural propaganda that was a contemporary vehicle for noble fame, and that consequently offered a kind of intellectual cursus honorum.

In 1933, a group of atheists seeking to develop a " new religion " to replace previous, deity-based religions, composed the Humanist Manifesto, which outlined a fifteen-point belief system, the first two points of which provided that " Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created " and " Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

Fugitives from Spain and Germany had come also to Italy, and founded new communities beside Greeks who had fled hither from Constantinople-bringing the treasures of classical antiquity with them — became the leaders and guides of the humanists to the source of Jewish antiquity.

Alcionio is one of the four humanists in the circle of Clement VII selected by Kenneth Gouwens to illustrate the shock of cultural discontinuity and new sense of human vulnerability caused by the Sack of Rome that put a premature end to the High Renaissance.

Its mission is: " Contributing to the integral development of the country, by means of the formation of human resources, research and extension ; keeping the scientific-technical leadership, the academic excellence and the strict attachment to the ethical, environmental and humanists norms, from a state university perspective of quality and competitiveness at national and international level ".

For example: atheists, agnostics, humanists, skeptics, and members of religious traditions who observe the cultural practices without believing literally in a deity might all pursue shared civic goals respecting egalitarian laws and a political discourse informed by the natural sciences.

Indeed, again and again, the space merchants confirm the prediction of the humanists that the conditioners and behavioral scientists, once they have seen through human nature, will have nothing except their impulses and desires to guide them.

He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

The Cimbrian origin is a myth that was popularized by the humanists in the 14th century.

The term encyclopaedia was coined by 15th century humanists who misread copies of their texts of Pliny and Quintilian, and combined the two Greek words " enkyklios paideia " into one word.

Paulus de Liazariis and Johannes de Sancto Georgio were among his students, and he counted the humanists Cino da Pistoia and Petrarch among his friends.

His early influences included Paolo da Perugia ( a curator and author of a collection of myths, the Collectiones ), the humanists Barbato da Sulmona and Giovanni Barrili, and the theologian Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro.

Prior to Montaigne's time, humanists such as Pico della Mirandola had argued that man was God's greatest creation, made in God's image and able to choose his own nature, but this view was subsequently challenged in Michel de Montaigne's Essais of 1580.

He exchanged scholarly letters with a circle of Swiss humanists and began to study the writings of Erasmus.

His connection with humanists was a decisive factor as several canons were sympathetic to Erasmian reform.

He often depicted witches, also a local interest: Strasbourg's humanists studied witchcraft and its bishop was charged with ferreting out witches.

Many early typefaces were modelled on local forms of writing or derived from the various European forms of Gothic script, but there were also some derived from documentary scripts ( such as most of Caxton's types ), and, particularly in Italy, types modelled on handwritten scripts and calligraphy employed by humanists.

During this time, tensions rose at the Collège Royal ( later to become the Collège de France ) between the humanists / reformers and the conservative senior faculty members.

The labors of past generations from the humanists onwards resulted in an enormous collection of materials in the form of text-editions, dictionaries, and grammars, although most of it was uncritical and untrustworthy.

Wyttenbach had employed many liberal humanists as teachers.

From the 15th century in central and northern Italy, libraries of humanists and their enlightened patrons provided a nucleus around which an " academy " of scholars congregated in each Italian city of consequence.

From the 15th century in central and northern Italy, libraries of humanists and their enlightened patrons provided a nucleus around which an " academy " of scholars congregated in each Italian city of consequence. Malatesta Novello, lord of Cesena, founded the Malatestiana Library.

He was considered somewhat heretical after his death, but Renaissance humanists took a renewed interest in him, more for his elaborately rhetorical Latin style than for his theology.

Now he took his place at court with scholars, poets, and humanists, in a climate that fostered an appreciation for elegance and complexity.

In this context, Christian humanists such as Lorenzo Valla and Erasmus promoted a return to the original Greek of the New Testament.

Notwithstanding some mitigating themes, the Catholic Church banned The Prince, registering it to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, and humanists also viewed the book negatively.

Francesco Petrarca ( 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374 ), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists.