| Italian culture flourished at this time, producing famous scholars, artists and polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Michelangelo and Machiavelli. |
| The author is one of the BBC's greatest polymaths and while this book is not 'authorised' it is yet sympathetic to the new order created by Labour. |
| That's the first time I've been called a polymath, and it doesn't feel very good, All the people before me who have been called polymaths are people I really look up to. |
| These polymaths often resented their lack of recognition from specialist professional academics, and compensated by seeking political success. |
| Second, close readings of grammarians and polymaths betray a fascination with the relation of vernacular language to pedagogy and geography. |
| His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, polymaths and mystics. |
