uomo singolare (English spelling) uomo singolare

Japanese: uomo singolare(英語表記)uomosingolare
uomo singolare (English spelling) uomo singolare

…The term has been widely used since Swiss historian Burckhardt characterized the universal genius born in the Renaissance as a universal man in his book Renaissance Culture in Italy (1860). The universal man is contrasted with the singular man, who is talented only in a specific field, and is also distinguished from the encyclopedic intellectual or universal artist, whose talent is not narrow but limited to a specific field, such as scholarship or art. In other words, a universal man is a person who creates only new and complete works in all fields, and who also makes a great impression as a person, and such people were produced in Renaissance Italy. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "uomo singolare" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…スイスの史家ブルクハルトが《イタリアにおけるルネサンス文化》(1860)のなかで,ルネサンスが生んだ万能の天才を〈普遍人uomo universale〉として特色づけて以来,広く使用されるようになった。普遍人は,特異な狭い領域にのみ才能を発揮する〈異才人uomo singolare〉と対比され,他方,狭くはないがその広さが特定の領域,たとえば学識や芸術にのみ限られる百科全書的知識人や万能芸術家とも区別される。すなわち,あらゆる領域で新しく,かつそれらのジャンルにおいて完成されたものだけを創造し,しかも人間としても偉大な印象を与えるような人間が普遍人であり,そのような人間がルネサンスのイタリアには輩出した。…

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