Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance

Federica Ciccolella (Ph.D. Turin, 1991 and Columbia University, 2004) is Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. She has published on Byzantine poetry (Cinque poeti bizantini, Alessandria 2000) and the study of Greek in the Renaissance (Donati Graeci: Learning Greek in the Renaissance, Leiden 2008).Luigi Silvano (Ph.D. Turin, 2005) is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Turin. His research focuses on the reception of classical literatures in the Renaissance (Angelo Poliziano, Appunti per un corso sull’Odissea, Alessandria 2010) as well as various aspects of Byzantine culture.

“For anyone interested in the teaching of Greek in Renaissance Italy, this volume offers a great deal of good new scholarship.” - Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto, emeritus, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 71:2 (Summer 2018), pp. 714-715“L’esplorazione dei manoscritti prodotti e circolanti in tale cerchia, attualmente conservati in massima parte nel fondo Barocci della Bodleian Library, consente a C. di verificare, tra l’altro, come la pratica didattica del greco in ambito cretese, per quanto aperta alla ricezione di alcune delle novità emerse in Occidente, persistesse nell’alveo della tradizione grammaticale bizantina. Merita, infine, una menzione la bibliografia assai abbondante ed aggiornata raccolta a conclusione del volume, che non mancherà di rappresentare un validissimo sussidio per le ricerche future.” - Marco Barbero, in: Medioevo greco 18 (2018)

• IntroductionEditors’ Note1. The Transmission and Reception of Manuel Moschopulos’ Schedography in the WestFevronia Nousia2. Study Tools in the Humanist Greek School: Preliminary Observations on Greek-Latin LexicaAntonio Rollo3. Greek at the School of Vittorino da FeltreMariarosa Cortesi4. Greek Studies in Giovanni Tortelli’s Orthographia: A World in TransitionPaola Tomè5. Working with Plotinus: A Study of Marsilio Ficino’s Textual and Divinatory PhilologyDenis J.-J. Robichaud6. Praeclara librorum suppellectilis: Cretan Manuscripts in Pietro da Portico’s LibraryDavid Speranzi7. Learning Greek in the Land of Otranto: Some Remarks on Sergio Stiso of Zollino and His SchoolFrancesco G. Giannachi8. Antonio Allegri da Correggio: The Greek Inscription in the Hermitage PortraitKalle O. Lundahl9. Teaching Greek in Renaissance Rome: Basil Chalcondyles and His Courses on the OdysseyLuigi Silvano10. Vettor Fausto (1490-1546), Professor of Greek at the School of Saint MarkLilia Campana11. Franciscus Bovius Ferrarensis and Johannes Sagomalas Naupliensis: Teaching Elementary Greek in the Mid-Sixteenth CenturyErika Nuti12. Greek in Venetian Crete: Grammars and Schoolbooks from the Library of Francesco Barocci Federica CiccolellaBibliographyIndex of Manuscripts and Archival MaterialsIndex of Proper Names