a renaissance man, according to wikipedia:
A polymath (also known as a polyhistor) is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. The most common other term for this phenomenon is Renaissance man, but also in use are Homo universalis and Uomo Universale, which in Latin and Italian, respectively, translate as "Universal Man".
a woman of the renaissance, from book 3, chapter 6 of machiavelli's discourses:
... and to show that she did not care for her children, she showed them her genital member, saying that she had the means of making more.
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