Who really said it
Wikiquote rejects the Michelangelo credit and connects the motto with Giuntalodi’s imagery. Scholarship confirms that artistic connection; no individual coiner is established.
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“Ancora imparo. (I am still learning.)” — An anonymous Renaissance motto, here glossed as “I am still learning”; not established as Michelangelo’s words.
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Provenance
Ancora imparo.
Wikiquote correctionHow we verified this
The short Italian motto is documented as a Renaissance inscription and in an engraving by William Blake, who died in 1827. The historical phrase predates 1931; the plain English gloss is supplied only to explain its meaning.
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Fact-check
The motto’s later association with a famous artist is not a primary utterance.
Wikiquote explicitly rejects the credit; Giuntalodi evidence does not establish Michelangelo’s authorship. Attribution history ↗
The art-history source documents use in imagery, not proof that he invented the words. Scholarship ↗
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Lists the motto as misattributed to Michelangelo and discusses Duppa and Giuntalodi.
Deswarte-Rosa 1988 article recounts Vasari’s description of Giuntalodi’s image bearing ANCORA IMPARO.
Catalogs William Blake’s Ancora imparo, M. Angelo Bonarroti, demonstrating a later attribution artifact.
Background on the artist popularly credited.
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Renaissance motto associated with Giuntalodi; later Michelangelo attribution. See the linked research; a primary edition of the displayed wording has not been independently confirmed.
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