AP US History

Category - History

Which of the following describes an ideal Renaissance man?
  1. A Renaissance man is a patron of the guilds.
  2. A Renaissance man studies classic Byzantine texts.
  3. A Renaissance man is knowledgeable in many fields, especially in the arts.
  4. A Renaissance man knows the arts of war and fighting.
Explanation
Answer - C - A Renaissance man is knowledgeable in many fields, especially in the arts.

Key Takeaway: Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery of Latin and Greek literary texts. Initially, a humanist was simply a scholar or teacher of Latin literature. By the mid-15th century, however, humanism described a curriculum of basic humanities: grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history, as studied via Latin and Greek literary authors. Someone who would be termed a renaissance man would be knowledgeable in all of these fields.
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