Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ludovico Ariosto" in English language version.
1580s, 'student of the classical humanities', from Middle French humaniste (16c.), formed on model of Italian umanista 'student of human affairs or human nature', coined by Italian poet Lodovicio Ariosto (1474–1533), from Latin humanus 'human' (see human; also see humanism). Philosophical sense is from 1903.
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