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Donati Graeci: Learning Greek in the Renaissance

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
9004163522, 9789004163522
LCC
PA57 .C53 2009
Open Library ID
OL12799395M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5016267 bytes)
Series
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 32
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
638\673
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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