Question

The Renaissance scholar who brought back the idea that man should think for himself was .

Answer 1

i think Petrarch is this answer to your question.

Answer 2

 Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati, and Poggio Bracciolini were all critical thinkers of this philosophy however of the four, Petrarch was given the title of "Father of Humanism".