Full Description
The beginning of the Greek revival in the West is generally attributed to the teaching of the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras in Florence between 1397 and 1400. Causes, aspects, and consequences of this important cultural phenomenon still need to be analyzed in depth.
The essays collected in this volume examine the development of the study of Greek from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century, reconstructing its spread and impact on early modern literatures, philosophy, and visual arts. An analysis of the methods and tools used to teach and learn Greek sheds light on the complex cultural relationships between Byzantium and the West and enlarges the traditional picture of the Greek revival in early modern Europe.
Contributors are: Lilia Campana, Federica Ciccolella, Mariarosa Cortesi, Francesco G. Giannachi, Fevronia Nousia, Kalle Lundahl, Erika Nuti, Denis Robichaud, Antonio Rollo, Luigi Silvano, David Speranzi, and Paola Tomé.
Contents
Introduction
Editors' Note
1. The Transmission and Reception of Manuel Moschopulos' Schedography in the West
Fevronia Nousia
2. Study Tools in the Humanist Greek School: Preliminary Observations on Greek-Latin Lexica
Antonio Rollo
3. Greek at the School of Vittorino da Feltre
Mariarosa Cortesi
4. Greek Studies in Giovanni Tortelli's Orthographia: A World in Transition
Paola Tomè
5. Working with Plotinus: A Study of Marsilio Ficino's Textual and Divinatory Philology
Denis J.-J. Robichaud
6. Praeclara librorum suppellectilis: Cretan Manuscripts in Pietro da Portico's Library
David Speranzi
7. Learning Greek in the Land of Otranto: Some Remarks on Sergio Stiso of Zollino and His School
Francesco G. Giannachi
8. Antonio Allegri da Correggio: The Greek Inscription in the Hermitage Portrait
Kalle O. Lundahl
9. Teaching Greek in Renaissance Rome: Basil Chalcondyles and His Courses on the Odyssey
Luigi Silvano
10. Vettor Fausto (1490-1546), Professor of Greek at the School of Saint Mark
Lilia Campana
11. Franciscus Bovius Ferrarensis and Johannes Sagomalas Naupliensis: Teaching Elementary Greek in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Erika Nuti
12. Greek in Venetian Crete: Grammars and Schoolbooks from the Library of Francesco Barocci
Federica Ciccolella
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts and Archival Materials
Index of Proper Names
