He collected a large library at his castle, and devoted his time to study and to the company of the humanist friends who visited him at Hassistein.
On the other hand, even such an extreme "ultramontane" as the humanist Bohnslav of Lobkovic does not display such absolute and abject submission to the Church of Rome as we find in Southern Europe.
At a very early age he proceeded to the University of Bologna, where he pursued his studies for some time, and no doubt also became acquainted with the teachers of the humanist learning, of which Bologna was then a stronghold.
The humanist movement, suspected both as coming from Rome and as having what were believed to be pagan tendencies, reached Bohemia late.
Though, in consequence of the Hussite wars, the humanist movement was late in reaching Bohemia, it had there a considerable influence, though of a rather indirect nature.
It appears particularly to have surprised the Italian humanist how general in the town the knowledge of the Bible was.
The outspoken contempt for the national language expressed by so renowned a humanist could not but discourage its cultivation by others.
The one is the growth of the humanist movement in Bohemia; the other is the foundation of the sect of the "Bohemian Brethren.
Another Bohemian humanist who, by means of translations into his native language, has deserved well of his country, is Nicolas Konac, or Finitor, according to the Latinised version of his name.
In no country had the humanist great sympathy with the national language.
The foremosthumanist of the age was Desiderius Erasmus.
Another Italian humanist went so far as to call Dante "a poet for bakers and cobblers," and the Divine Comedy was indeed translated into Latin a few years after the author's death.
This letter shows him as a moderate, and, at the same time, as a true representative of Humanist interests.
Here the writer is no other than the learned Humanist Melanchthon, who, like Luther, with the help of a woodcut, describes and explains the portent.
It is true that, saving some expressions peculiar to the Saxon peasant, such obscenity is to be met with among the neo-Humanist writers of that age, both in Germany and abroad.
In his Latin letters to Humanist friends he often drops into Greek, particularly when anxious to conceal anything, for instance, when he has to complain of Luther.
There is no doubt that the sparks of hate which emanated from this frivolous and revolutionary humanist contributed to kindle the somewhat peculiar patriotism of the Wittenberg professor.
We know that even in 1516 the Humanist Mutian had great trouble in obtaining permission for an Augustinian frequently to visit his house at Erfurt, even accompanied by another Friar.
Sidenote: Erasmus, Chief Humanist of the Sixteenth Century] Towering above all his contemporaries was Erasmus, the foremost humanist and the intellectual arbiter of the sixteenth century.
But it is obvious that he was as little of a Christian, in any definite sense of the word, as any humanist of the fifteenth century.
He was one of the earliest of the French humanist students to devote himself to the vernacular, and, though his short and troubled life did not enable him to perfect his French style, he is very interesting as a specimen.
As a humanist he had been reared, as a humanist he had lived and labored, as a humanist he died, maintaining to the very last his interest in those studies which it had been his life's passion to pursue.
But to be hailed by the great Renaissance patron of the period, by one also who was himself one of the leading humanists, as a brother-humanist and a fellow-patron of learning, was a delicate incense to his vanity which he could not resist.
During his tenure of it he sent out such pupils as Poliziano, Donato Acciaiuoli, Janus Pannonius, and the famous German humanist Reuchlin.
The son, at Vienna and at Basel, became a proficient in the humanist studies.
This distinguished humanist became involved in a controversy with the Dominicans of Cologne, who wished to burn all the Hebrew literature except the Old Testament.
The humanist learning had done much to undermine belief in the old religious system.
Humanist scholars were made secretaries and ambassadors.
This was under the leadership of a popular humanist preacher in Zurich by the name of Huldreich Zwingli.
The first real establishment of the new learning in England came through the secondary schools, and through the refounding of the cathedral school of Saint Paul's, in London, by the humanist John Colet, in 1510.
Mr. Joseph again is much bewildered as to what a humanist can mean when he uses the word knowledge.
The future experience, however, may be of things outside the thinker; and that this is so the humanist may believe as freely as any other kind of empiricist philosopher.
The humanist sees all the time, however, that there is no absolute transcendency even about the more absolute realities thus conjectured or believed in.
But their broad humanist scope, their encyclopedic outlook, makes his lectures on The Beginnings of Opera frescoes of whilom civilizations.
Franz Masereel, the Belgian artist, developed hishumanist plaint in a series of magnificent woodcuts.
One copy was dug up some five hundred years later from the dust of the cloister library of Saint Emmeran at Regensburg by Conrad Celtes of Humanist fame, and edited by him in 1,501.
Even Conrad Celtes (the one Humanist in the Italian the Lorenzo de' Medici sense of the term that Germany has ever produced) could not quite deaden the Teutonic conscience.
The brave and patriotic knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutton himself died, young and abandoned, of the loathsome disease; it is unknown whether he contracted it through his own fault, or by contagion.
It is true that if we look at the matter through Luther’s spectacles we can understand how certain darker sides of Erasmus and hisHumanist school repelled him.
The Humanist and clever man of letters has left therein many a witty page; a refreshing sincerity is one of his characteristics.
The author's real name was Camillo Scrofa, a humanistand schoolmaster of Vicenza.
Footnote 576: An interesting description of a humanist opening his course at Padua, and of the excitement in the town about it, is furnished by the anonymous Maccaronic poet who sang the burlesque praises of Vigonca.
It was he who, towards the end of 1519, sent from Italy to Luther and Melancthon at Wittenberg, the Humanist theologian, John Hess, afterwards the reformer of the Church at Breslau.
He had an opinion on these matters and on the necessary reforms drawn up by the Humanist Wimpheling.
Had the Scientific Humanist observed them, he could not have contested the fact, that as a couple who had set up to be father and mother of Britons, they were doing their duty.
No Scientific Humanist was by to study the natural development, and guide him.
The work of Althamer, the Humanist and so-called Reformer of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was the first to bear the title "Catechism.
Other members of the humanist circle sought her out.
Some writings of the humanist Reuchlin were also perused by them[1160].
At the beginning of the 16th century, however, the humanist Conrad Celtes came across a copy of her dramas, which seemed to him so remarkable that he had them printed.
He was a Humanistand a poet, but a man apart, marked out from among his fellows, destined to live in the memories of his nation when their names had been forgotten.
The controversy which followed, and which lasted for six weary years, was so managed by the Dominicans, that Reuchlin, a Humanist and a layman, was made to appear as defying the theologians of the Church on a point of theology.
The Dean of St. Paul's made Erasmus the decidedly Christian Humanist he became, and impressed on him that conception of a reformation which, leaving external things very much as they were, undertook a renovation of morals.
The Humanist young sovereigns and theHumanist Pope, from whom so much had been expected, congratulating each other on Luther's condemnation to the stake!
The scheme of education sung in the Weisskunig, and illustrated by Hans Burgmaier, entitled him to the name "the Humanist Emperor.
The monkish opponents of the great Humanist had been thoroughly in the right when they feared the effects of his revolutionary ways of thinking, however they might be accompanied with appeals against all revolutionary action.
From that date the University never lacked Humanist teachers, and a Humanist circle had gradually grown up among the successive generations of students.
The Humanist circle at Nuernberg was perhaps the most distinguished, and it stood in closer relations than any other with the coming Reformation.
Italy when the Renaissance was at its height, that France may be said to have welcomed the Humanist movement.
This suggested to some young Humanist the idea of a collection of letters in which the obscurantists could be seen exposing themselves and their unutterable folly under the parodied title of Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum.
Even the Humanist poets sang her praises with enthusiasm, and such collectors of relics as Frederick of Saxony and the Cardinal Archbishop of Mainz rejoiced when they were able to add a thumb of St. Anna to their store.
Some thought it was Reuchlin himself, others Erasmus, Hutten, or one of the Humanist party.
He is above the average Elizabethan, and his very bad taste in The Affectionate Shepherd (a following of Virgil's Second Eclogue) may be excused as a humanistcrotchet of the time.
This work shows the Renaissance not only as secular and humanist but even as pagan: early ages would have considered such treatment impious.
Study it as a type of the last word of the humanist Renaissance against mediæval spirituality.
The truth is that the intellectual education of the average Englishman is sacrificed to an antiquated humanist system, administered by unimaginative and pedantic people.
Now the Scientific Humanist had, of course, nothing to reproach himself with.
And if the Scientific Humanist to the day of his death forgets the sight of those two poor true women jigging on their wretched hearts to calm the child, he must have very little of the human in him.
Priscianese, a well-known Humanist and savant of the day, describes a Bacchanalian feast on the 1st of August, in a pleasant garden belonging to Messer Tiziano Vecellio.
With humanist convictions, he had little of the humanist spirit.
Having received some education at Nuremberg from the humanist Heinrich Grieninger, he entered (1504) the university of Cologne.
