 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 and Cicero, he is not, in Voigt's opinion, a typical Renaissance man like Petrach and his successors, because Dante stood in the late mediaeval world and the corporative structures.