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Donati Graeci: Learning Greek in the Renaissance

Donati Graeci: Learning Greek in the Renaissance

Ciccolella, Federica

Hardcover

Miscellaneous LanguagesAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004163522
ISBN13: 9789004163522
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 27 2008
Pages: 642
Weight: 2.75
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
The starting point generally acknowledged for the revival of Greek studies in the West is 1397, when the Byzantine Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Florence. With his Erotemata, Chrysoloras gave to Westerners a tool to learn Greek; the search for the ideal Greek textbook, however, continued even after the publication of the best Byzantine-humanist grammars. The four Greek Donati edited in this book--Latinate Greek grammars, based on the Latin schoolbook entitled Ianua or Donatus--belong to the many pedagogical experiments documented in manuscripts. They attest to a tradition of Greek studies that probably originated in Venice and/or Crete: a tradition certainly inferior to the Florentine scholarship in quality and circulation, but still important in the cultural history of the Renaissance.

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