本文主要讨论“人文主义”一词的本源和它本初的意思 ,介绍科利思泰勒的定义和其他两位欧洲学者为增补、修正这一定义所举的原始材料。材料大都是十四、十五世纪之间的意大利人写的拉丁文 ,以萨卢塔蒂的书信为主。 This article mainly discusses the origin of the term “humanism” and its original meaning. It introduces the definition of Collis Taylor and the original materials cited by two other European scholars as supplementing and amending this definition. Most of the material is written by the Italians between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Latin, mainly by the letters of Salutatti.