... which they referred to as humanitas. Eventually, the term humanities came to refer to the seven liberal arts of antiquity which included arithmetic, grammar, logic, astronomy, geometry, music and rhetoric. Early Renaissance Italian humanists such as Battista Guarino and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini asserted that a man must study the humanities to acquire virtue and to attain enlightenment. Likewise, Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat and author ... , instructed modern Renaissance gentleman in The Book of the Courtier to become learned in a wide variety of subjects including the hu...

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