Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word umanista.

Examples

  • It was among the scholars of Italian universities that the word umanista (in the vernacular, whence it was taken over into Latin as humanista) was first applied to the pro - fessors and students of rhetoric.

    HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

  • I well remember the interest aroused by his article of 1944, since expanded, which put the word 'humanism' in a new perspective for Renaissance scholars, and which was confirmed by Dr. Augusto Campana's examination of the meaning of the word umanista as actually used in the Italian Renaissance.

    No Man's Land Yates, Frances A. 1964

  • Pertusi, Storiografia umanista e mondo bizantino (Palermo, 1967).

    HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

  • He is the author of a "De viris illustribus Ordinis Prædicatorum", written in humanistic style, and of the Office of St. Catherine of Siena, usually but incorrectly ascribed to Pius II (Cozzuli "Tommaso Schifaldo umanista siciliano del sec.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.