most of the rest is medieval or humanist or part of an old tradition of social criticism.

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

" Individualism is thus also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors as so also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.

Published at his own expense in 1532, it showed that he was a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus with a thorough understanding of classical scholarship.

So, for example, the 16th-century humanist scholar Polydore Vergil famously rejected the claim that Arthur was the ruler of a post-Roman empire, found throughout the post-Galfridian medieval " chronicle tradition ", to the horror of Welsh and English antiquarians.

Under Carrarese rule the early humanist circles in the university were effectively disbanded: Albertino Mussato, the first modern poet laureate, died in exile at Chiogga in 1329, and the eventual heir of the Paduan tradition was the Tuscan Petrarch.

Vico's rediscovery of " the most ancient wisdom " of the senses ( a wisdom that is " human foolishness " or humana stultitia ), his emphasis on the importance of civic life, and his professional obligations remind us of the humanist tradition.

A pragmatist and a humanist, he established the tradition at Penn Law of the dean as first among equals.

The Hypnerotomachia also draws from a humanist tradition of arcane writings as a demonstration of classical thought.

Through a curriculum and extracurricular program rooted in the Catholic humanist tradition, the College seeks to empower its students to comprehend community and global issues and to act responsibly toward self and others.

An ardent humanist and student of the antique, he yet vindicated resolutely the French tradition in opposition to Italian tendencies ; he was a man of independent mind and a vigorous originality.

" Lorenzo was the first of the family to be educated from an early age in the humanist tradition and is best known as one of the Renaissance's most important patrons of the arts.

Marx's critique of the ideology of the human rights thus departs from the counterrevolutionary critique by Edmund Burke, who dismissed the " rights of Man " in favour of the " rights of the individual ": it is not grounded on an opposition to the Enlightenment's universalism and humanist project on behalf of the right of tradition, as in Burke's case, but rather on the claim that the ideology of economism and the ideology of the human rights are the reverse sides of the same coin.

French Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin declared that " the humanist European tradition is in mourning for one of its most talented exponents ".

Along with the nearby Jewish Museum, it is one of the two most prominent remaining secular Jewish institutions in Romania, continuing what Bercovici called " a tradition of humanist theater ".

As a Jesuit historian Bartoli represents the shift from the preceding Latin humanist historiography of Niccolò Orlandini and Francesco Sacchini to the illustrious Jesuit prose tradition he established in Italian when he undertook the official history of the first century of the Society of Jesus ( 1540 ).

His own studies, in the renaissance humanist tradition, had led him to preach against injustices and hierarchies in the Church already in 1516 while he was still a priest in Einsiedeln.

Mary Sidney was highly educated in the humanist tradition.

Tomás was born to the Iriarte family, many of whose members were writers in the humanist tradition.

Autonomous Action utilizes direct action " to create a tradition and basis for a new humanist culture, social self-organisation and radical resistance against militarism, capitalism, sexism and fascism ".

He sees his own major contribution as being the promotion of understanding of humanist ethics deriving from the philosophical tradition.

In the opening pages, after Cosimo has described his grandfather's inspiration for gardens in which the conversations are set, Fabrizio declaims that we should imitate ancient warfare rather than ancient art forms-however, the Art of War is a dialogue in the humanist tradition of imitating classical forms.

Dealing with the nature and history of the Russian monarchy, the trilogy had little in common with the author's earlier symbolism-influenced prose and, cast very much in the " humanist tradition of the XIX century Russian literature ", was regarded later as the height of Merezhkovsky's literary career.

He is considered a key contributor to the rhetorical tradition because of his humanist approach to pedagogy, literary criticism, his own works ( including letters ), and oratory.

The Renaissance humanist artist Albrecht Dürer memorialized Jerome's courage in electing to use a more perfect analogical type of Christ's am the Vine you are the branches " in his woodcut Saint Jerome in His Study.

– 12 July 1536 ), known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian.

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

Hamlet reflects the contemporary scepticism promoted by the French Renaissance humanist, Montaigne.

Leon Battista Alberti ( February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

An Italian humanist, Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance " universal man ".

His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (, 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527 ) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.

He inspired humanist philosophy which led to the intellectual flowering of the Renaissance.

A highly introspective man, he shaped the nascent humanist movement a great deal because many of the internal conflicts and musings expressed in his writings were seized upon by Renaissance humanist philosophers and argued continually for the next 200 years.

Thus the term humanist can mean a humanities scholar, as well as refer to The Enlightenment / Renaissance intellectuals, and those who have agreement with the pre-Socratics, as distinct from secular humanists.

Sir Thomas More (; 7 February 14786 July 1535 ), known to Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.

* Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

** Niccolò de ' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist ( b. 1364 )

Named after 16th century Italian master of calligraphy Giambattista Palatino, Palatino is based on the humanist fonts of the Italian Renaissance, which mirror the letters formed by a broad nib pen ; this gives a calligraphic grace.

Conrad Celtes ( or Celtis ), also Konrad Celtis and Latin Conradus Celtis ( 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508 ), was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and Neo-Latin poet.

Coluccio Salutati ( February 16, 1331 – May 4, 1406 ) was a Tuscan humanist and man of letters, and one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence ; as chancellor of the Republic and its most prominent voice, he was effectively the permanent secretary of state in the generation before the rise of the Medici.

Besides Copernicus, Albert's students included the mathematician Bernard Wapowski and the German poet and Renaissance humanist, Conrad Celtis, who in Kraków established the first Central European literary society, Sodalitas Litterana Vistulana.

Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists.

* François Rabelais, ( c. 1493-1553 ), was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist

During the Renaissance, Boccaccio, a 14th century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris ( Latin for On Famous Women ).

François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553 ) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.