The Humanities and Humanism

In the renaissance, there was a rebirth of european civili on the basis of a kind of rediscovery of much classical wisdom from classical authors. And so accordingly, the renaissance humanists believed that particular texts were the key to shaping one's soul and perfecting the self. Erik: How do you adjudicate what canon et cetera did they just take for granted that you'd have the shelfalet's say, the saint john's curriculum?