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Renaissance Man

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a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

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§1
a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
§2
a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests

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