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Johannes Crastonis
Johannes Crastonis (Crastonus; Crastone) was an Italian renaissance humanism, renaissance humanist and scholar. Crastonus was probably born in Castel San Giovanni close to Piacenza. He was a member of the Carmelite Order, Carmelites. He studied in Constantinople but migrated to Modena (near Ferrara) in Renaissance Italy, Italy. There he published a Greek language, Greek-Latin dictionary about 1480. In Milan, together with Bonus Accursius, he edited various works to facilitate the learning of Greek. His collaboration with Bonus Accursius started no later than 1478. Among these works were a bi-lingual Greek and Latin edition of the Psalms, dedicated to Ludovico Donà, published on 21 September 1481. This was the first printed version of the Greek Psalms. While at Milan, he was friends with Ermolao Barbaro, Francesco Filelfo, Giorgio Merula and Iacopo Antiquari. His ''Vocabulista'', a Greek-Latin dictionary, was first printed probably in Milan and then re-printed twice before 1500 by ...
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Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao Barbaro, in Latin Hermolaus Barbarus (21 May 145414 June 1493), was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, diplomat and churchman. From 1491, he was the patriarch of Aquileia. He is often called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his cousin, Ermolao Barbaro the Elder. Education Ermolao Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro. He was also the uncle of Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro Much of his early education was outside of Venice, accompanying his father who was an active politician and diplomat. He received further education in Verona with an uncle, also named Ermolao. In 1462 he was sent to Rome, where he studied under Pomponius Laetus and Theodorus Gaza. By 1468 he had returned to Verona, where Frederick III awarded him a laurel crown for his poetry. He completed his education at the University of Padua, where he was appointed professor of philosophy there in 1477. Two years later he revisited Ve ...
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Greek Scholars In The Renaissance
The migration waves of Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine Greek scholars and émigrés in the period following the fall of Constantinople, end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 are considered by many scholars key to the revival of Classics, Greek studies that led to the development of Renaissance humanism and Science in the Renaissance, science. These émigrés brought to Western Europe the relatively well-preserved remnants and accumulated knowledge of their own (Greek) civilization, which had mostly not survived the Early Middle Ages in the West. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' claims: "Many modern scholars also agree that the exodus of Greeks to Italy as a result of this event marked the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance," although few scholars date the start of the Italian Renaissance this late. History The main role of Byzantine scholars within Renaissance humanism was the teaching of the Ancient Greek, Greek language to their Western counterparts in un ...
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Constantine Lascaris
Constantine Lascaris ( ''Kostantinos Láskaris''; 1434 – 15 August 1501) was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in Italy during the Renaissance, born in Constantinople. Life Constantine Lascaris was born in Constantinople, where he was educated by the scholar John Argyropoulos, Gemistus Pletho's friend and pupil. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he took refuge in Rhodes and then in Italy, where Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, appointed him Greek tutor to his daughter Hippolyta. Here was published his ''Grammatica Graeca, sive compendium octo orationis partium'', remarkable as being probably the first book entirely in Greek issued from the printing press, in 1476. After leaving Milan in 1465, Lascaris taught in Rome and in Naples, to which he had been summoned by Ferdinand I to deliver a course of lectures on Greece. In the following year, on the invitation of the inhabitants, and especially of Ludovico Saccano, ...
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Marcus Antonius De Bazaleriis
Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: * Marcus (name), a masculine given name * Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Places * Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44 * Mărcuş, a village in Dobârlău Commune, Covasna County, Romania * Marcus, Illinois, an unincorporated community, United States * Marcus, Iowa, a city, United States * Marcus, South Dakota, an unincorporated community, United States * Marcus, Washington, a town, United States * Marcus Island, Japan, also known as Minami-Tori-shima * Mărcuș River, Romania * Marcus Township, Cherokee County, Iowa, United States Other uses * Markus, a beetle genus in family Cantharidae * ''Marcus'' (album), 2008 album by Marcus Miller * Marcus (comedian), finalist on ''Last Comic Standing'' season 6 * Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Marcus Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Marcus & Co., American jewelry retailer * Marcus by Goldman Sachs, an online bank * USS ''Marcus'' ...
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Dionysius Bertochus
The name Dionysius (; ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; ) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name of the Greek god, Dionysus, parallel to Apollon-ios from Apollon, with meanings of Dionysos' and Apollo's, etc. The exact beliefs attendant on the original assignment of such names remain unknown. Regardless of the language of origin of Dionysos and Apollon, the -ios/-ius suffix is associated with a full range of endings of the first and second declension in the Greek and Latin languages. The names may thus appear in ancient writing in any of their cases. Dionysios itself refers only to males. The feminine version of the name is Dionysia, nominative case, in both Greek and Latin. The name of the plant and the festival, Dionysia, is the neuter plural nominative, which looks the same in English from both languages. Dionysiou is the masculine and neuter genitive case of the Gree ...
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Iacopo Antiquari
Iacopo is a given name, form of Jacopo, an Italian variation of Giacomo. May also refer to: *Iacopo II Appiani (1400–1441), the lord of Piombino from 1405 until 1441 *Iacopo III Appiani (1422–1474), Prince of Piombino of the Appiani dynasty in the Renaissance *Iacopo IV Appiani (1459–1510), Italian condottiero and lord of Piombino of the Appiani dynasty in the Renaissance *Iacopo V Appiani (1480–1545), the lord of Piombino of the Appiani dynasty from 1511 until his death *Iacopo Balestri (born 1975), Italian footballer *Iacopo Jacomelli, Italian singer of 1940s *Iacopo La Rocca (born 1984), Italian football defender *Iacopo Rusticucci, 13th century Florentine politician *Vitaliano di Iacopo Vitaliani Vitaliano di Iacopo Vitaliani was a Paduan nobleman who lived in the late 13th century around the time of Giotto and Dante. He is best known for being a wicked usurer according to Dante in the Divine Comedy. Place in Dante's ''Inferno'' In Dante ..., Paduan nobleman who lived ...
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Giorgio Merula
Giorgio Merlani (c. 1430 – 1494), commonly known as Georgius Merula, was an Italian humanist and classical scholar. Life Merlani was born in Alessandria in Piedmont between late 1430 and early 1431. He later took the Roman cognomen Merula, claiming descent from the ancients. The greater part of his life was spent in Venice and Milan, where he held a professorship and continued to teach until his death. While he was teaching at Venice, he was the subject of a personal polemic by Cornelio Vitelli, directed at his scholarship; and Vitelli replaced him in 1483. Works Merula produced the '' editiones principes'' ( first editions) of Plautus (1472), of the '' Scriptores rei rusticae,'' Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius (1472) and possibly of Martial (1471). He also published commentaries on portions of Cicero (especially the ''De finibus''), on Ausonius, Juvenal, Curtius Rufus, and other classical authors. Merula wrote also Bellum scodrense' (1474), an account of the siege of S ...
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Francesco Filelfo
Francesco Filelfo (; 25 July 1398 – 31 July 1481) was an Italian Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist and author of the philosophic dialogue ''On Exile''. Biography Filelfo was born at Tolentino, in the March of Ancona. He is believed to be a third cousin of Leonardo da Vinci. At the time of his birth, Petrarch and the students of Florence had already begun to exalt the recovery of classic texts and culture. They had created an eager appetite for the antique, had rediscovered many important Ancient Rome, Roman authors, and had freed Latin language, Latin scholarship to some extent from the restrictions of earlier periods. Filelfo was destined to carry on their work in the field of Latin literature and as an agent in the still unaccomplished recovery of Greek culture. In Venice His earliest studies in grammar, rhetoric and the Latin language were conducted at University of Padua, Padua under the Renaissance humanism, Humanist educator Gasparinus de Bergamo, Gasparino Barz ...
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Bonus Accursius
Bonaccorso da Pisa or Bonus Accursius Pisanus ( 1456–1480) was an Italian humanist, editor and publisher. Educated in Milan and Pavia and active in Pisa and Milan, he is best known for his many editions of Greek texts. Life Bonaccorso was born in Pisa in the first half of the 15th century. He studied at Milan under Francesco Filelfo, whose letters are an important source of information on his early life. With a recommendation from Filelfo, he went to Pavia in 1456 to learn Greek under Andronikos Kallipolites.. This Andronikos, a native of Gallipoli, was a friend of Filelfo's. He was not the same person as Andronikos Kallistos, but he may have been the same as Andronikos Kontoblakas. See . After 1461, he opened his own school in Pisa. In 1469, Demetrios Kastrenos taught there. In 1470, Filelfo invited him to set up a school of rhetoric in Milan, although he did not do so until after 1474. In 1475, with Gian Francesco Della Torre's money, he purchased the library of Andronikos ...
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Castel San Giovanni
Castel San Giovanni (Emilian language#Dialects, Piacentino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The origins of the town are probably related to an ancient ''pieve'' called ''Olubra'' and a fortress called ''Castellus Milonus'', which preceded the construction of a new castle by Alberto Scoto in 1290 (now also disappeared). After a period under the Dal Verme family of lords-condottieri, it became part of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza in 1485. Main sights * The ''Collegiata di San Giovanni Battista'' (14th century), with Baroque portals and a 1496 crucifix by Giacomo del Maino and his son Giovanni Angelo Del Maino, Giovanni Angelo. * Church of ''San Giovanni Battista'' (12th century) * ''Villa Braghieri-Albesani, Castel San Giovanni, Villa Braghieri-Albesani'' (18th century), with several frescoed rooms. Famous people * Agostino Casaroli, Catholic cardinal * Pippo Santonastaso, Italian actor * Bongiorni Matteo, Italian insti ...
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Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ...
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