Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums oder das erste Jahrhundert des Humanismus
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Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums oder das erste Jahrhundert des Humanismus (Revival of Classical Antiquity or the First Century of Humanism) is a book by German scholar Georg Voigt. In Voigt's opinion Francesco Petrarca was the origin of Italian humanism. What was very important to him was the new relationship of man in the Renaissance to Classical antiquity especially to Cicero and his humanitas (humanity). Cicero's humanitas is the terminological origin of humanism in general. Despite the connection between Dante Alighieri and Roman authors such as Seneca, Cicero and so on, in Voigt's opinion he is not a typical Renaissance man like Petrarca and his successors, because Dante stood in the late mediaeval world and the corporatives structures. In recognizing his own self as a human in context with the studies of the Classical authors, Petrarca left the old mediaeval world and its corporative structures behind. The consciousness of being a human was the new quality. In the tradition of Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen, Voigt used the term "humanism" for the description of a historical period.
