THE SIGNS OF WISDOM: WHAT THE HUMANISTS OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE LOOKED LIKE
The article covers various aspects of the humanistic portrait of the XIV-XVth centuries: from literary notes and full-length biographies up to the tradition of the Renaissance painting. The author makes an attempt to reconstruct a generalized 'portrait of a humanist' as it was seen by the contemporaries as well as to connect the changes of the ideal of a 'man of wisdom with the changes of the Renaissance ideals