Sentence examples for humanist of from inspiring English sources

Petrarch (1304 1374), the famed humanist of the Italian Renaissance, formed a notably scientific and artistic collection of ancient coins.

The son of Martin the Humanist of Aragon, Martin married Queen Mary of Sicily in November 1391.

But for all the skill, it's mainly an evening of academic interest: it's extraordinary to see the most humanist of directors commanding a tinkling, anxiety-causing, mechanistic drama.

Last fall, he received the Harvard Humanist of the Year award for "his extensive body of work, his active, passionate commitment to Humanist values, and his fearless support of equal marriage rights and other social justice issues".

Thomas Sébillet, a humanist of the school of Clément Marot, who also looked back to the later Middle Ages, produced his Art poétique français ("The Art of French Poetry") in 1548.

One, that he was perhaps the last true humanist of European cinema, a director whose work was infallibly "tender", "sensitive" and "compassionate", and whose aesthetic credo might have been "women and children first".

Yet, despite the presence of humanist supporters of the Reformation, the equally patrician towns of Fribourg, Solothurn, Lucerne, and Zug remained Roman Catholic.

"A lot of humanist rhetoric of previous generations revolved around reason," he said.

You could even generalise, although somewhat loosely, that the death of Lorenzo meant the death of the humanist ideals of the Renaissance.

Yale had suddenly become the epicentre of deconstruction, that most mandarin and (in a style utterly different from Lewis's) anti-humanist of literary theories.

Some of the most important humanists of the Netherlands and Germany attended their schools including, among others, Erasmus.