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. Antimachus was born in

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. His father, who was also educated, sent him to

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while he was young, where he spent five years studying Greek under a

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n, John Mosco. He returned to Italy and opened a Greek language school in Mantua, which became well known. He later moved to

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, where he ran a similar school, and where he died in 1552. In addition to teaching, he translated some Greek works, which were published in

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in 1540, and wrote some

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poetry.

References

* * Diego Baldi, A Conrad Gesner in visita a Ferrara : un epigramma di Marco Antonio Antimaco, in "Il bibliotecario" 3 (2008), pp. 117–126 {{DEFAULTSORT:Antimachus, Marcus Antonius 1473 births 1552 deaths 16th-century Latin-language writers Italian Renaissance humanists Translators from Greek Writers from Mantua New Latin-language poets