Renaissance man, also called Universal Man, Italian Uomo Universale, an ideal that developed in Renaissance Italy from the notion expressed by one of its most-accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72), that “a man can do all things if he will.” The ideal embodied the basic tenets of Renaissance humanism, which considered man the centre of the universe, limitless in his capacities for development, and led to the notion that men should try to embrace all knowledge and develop their own capacities as fully as possible.
One of the most renowned, if not the most renowned of all during this time was the esteemed Leonardo da Vinci.
The intellectual giant who dominated the High Renaissance and stood as a bridge between the medieval and the modern mind moved irresolutely through the burgeoning cities of his native - peninsula Florence, Milan, Mantua, Rome - before he he finally found repose in alien land.
If not the greatest genius to have ever lived, the psychologist, zoolog