Greek Scholars in Venice. Studies in the Dissemination of Greek Learning from Byzantium to Western Europe.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgem�sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - The revival of Greek in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance depended on a westward diffusion of language and letters the Byzantine background of which is too seldom understood. The process of transmission becomes clearer as Mr. Geanakoplos discusses five representative Greek emigrant scholars from Byzantium and Venetian-dominated Crete who were instrumental in promoting Hellenic studies in the West, particularly in Venice during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when Venice became the chief center of Greek studies in Europe. They copied manuscripts, founded presses, taught Greek, and edited first editions of rediscovered texts. -- The careers of Michael and Arsenios Apostolis, Marcus Musurus, Zacharias Calliergis, and Demetrius Ducas are here for the first time adequately treated, set against a background of Byzantine-Venetian cultural relations, and placed in the context of the remarkable diaspora of Greeks in the West before and after 1453. Finally, the debt of Erasmus to Musurus and the other Greek scholars of the Aldine Academy in Venice is convincingly demonstrated.