humanism

An intellectual movement in the Renaissance that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman literature. Web resource here.

Poggio_Bracciolini_68_Urb._lat._224Portrait of Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), an early Italian humanist. From an illuminated manuscript, De Varietate Fortunae. 15th century. Vatican Library, Urb. Lat. 224.