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A Greek has just arrived, who has begun to teach me with great pains, and I to listen to his precepts with incredible pleasure, because he is Greek, because he is an Athenian, and because he is Demetrius. It seems to me that in him is figured all the wisdom, the civility, and the elegance of those so
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MARSILIO FICINO, CRISTOFORO LANDINO, ANGELO POLIZIANO, and DEMETRIUS CHALCOCONDYLES. Reproduced (by permission) from part of Alinari's photograph of Ghirlandaio's fresco on the south wall of the choir in Santa Maria Novella, Florence (ep. p.64 n.6)… A fresco in Santa Maria Novella painted by
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and Chalkokondyles, appeared in Florence, not before 13 January 1489, in two folio volumes. It was the first Greek book to be printed in Florence. The Greek type used to print the 1488–1489 Homer is believed to have been cast by the
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This detail of a fresco by the painter Ghirlandaio in Santa Maria Novella, Florence.... Poliziano and Landino, and the Byzantine Demetrius Chalcocondyles, at the extreme right. The latter explained difficult passages in Plato to
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Another Greek of importance was Demetrius Chalcocondyles of Athens (1424–1511), who reached Italy in 1447. In 1450 he became professor of Greek at Perugia.
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A History of Classical Scholarship ...: From the revival of learning to the end of the eighteenth century (in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands)
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Ghirlandaio (d.1498) represents an apparently friendly group of scholars who have been identified as Ficino, Landino, Politian and Demetrius.
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DEMETRIO CALCONDILA Ritratto: copia dall'originale di Domenico Ghirlandaio negli affreschi della cappella Tornabuoni in SM Novella (1490)
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Deno J. Geanakoplos, "The discourse of Demetrius Chalcocondyles on the inauguration of Greek studies at the University of Padua",
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famous and illustrious ancients. Merely seeing him you fancy you are looking on Plato; far more when you hear him speak.
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Interaction of the ‘Sibling’ Byzantine and Western Cultures in the Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance (330–1600)
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from what he called “the abominable, monstrous, and impious barbarian Turks.” In 1463 Chalkokondyles called on
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Demetrio Calcondila in un particolare dell'Apparizione dell'angelo a Zaccaria di Domenico Ghirlandaio, Firenze
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Stanford University; Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections; Carolan, James M.; Watson, Robert (1984).
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Chalkokondyles married in 1484 at the age of sixty-one and fathered ten children. Finally, invited by
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Medieval Western civilization and the Byzantine and Islamic worlds: interaction of three cultures
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The Renaissance, the Protestant Revolution and the Catholic Reformation in Continental Europe
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in the revival of letters in the Western world, and Chalkokondyles was the last of the Greek
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the grammar handbook "Summarized Questions on the Eight Parts of Speech With Some Rules" (
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Pierio Valeriano on the ill fortune of learned men: a Renaissance humanist and his world
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scholars in the West. He taught in Italy for over forty years; his colleagues included
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Scholars, texts, traditions: the influence of classical antiquity in Western culture
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who taught Greek literature at the great universities of the Italian Renaissance (
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It was during his tenure at the Studium in Florence that Chalkokondyles edited
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Short Biographical Lexicon of Byzantine Academics Immigrants to Western Europe
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Robin, Diana (2007). Robin, Diana; Larsen, Anne R.; Levin, Carole (eds.).
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
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in 1423 to one of the noblest Athenian families; he was the cousin of
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Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England
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Creating East and West: Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks
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Creating East and West: Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks
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From Byzantium to Italy. Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
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Belloni, Gino; Fantoni, Marcello; Drusi, Riccardo (2007).
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edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles. Florence, 1489.
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He became the student of 1262:Academic staff of the University of Perugia 945:Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks 733:Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks 474:As a scholar, Chalkokondyles published the 35: 1093:"Homer in Renaissance Europe (1488‒1649)" 1022:"All Scholars: Chalkokondyles, Demetrius" 966: 964: 962: 912: 910: 908: 620:Umanesimo: Ventisette tavole fuouri testo 1230:, article about the textual history the 916: 753: 542:from the type that he had used to print 530:of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, edited by 433: 385: 246: 645:. Casa Editrice Marzocco. p. 109. 419:, the Florentine Greek and Latin poet. 1239: 1028:. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. 959: 905: 415:was one of his pupils. He also taught 1090: 995: 884:Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson (2008). 438:Page from the first printed edition ( 403:for publication, which, dedicated to 375:once came to Italy's aid against the 259:Demetrios Chalkokondyles was born in 1170:, Camberley: Porphyrogenitus, 1995. 1168:Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400–1520 1038: 760:Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 735:. Cornell University. p. 125. 13: 989: 947:. Cornell University. p. 29. 888:. BiblioBazaar, LLC. p. 264. 515:, edited and published in 1529 by 291:and later gained the patronage of 14: 1333: 1209: 886:The History of Education Volume 1 641:Riccardi, Palazzo Medici (1939). 572:Greek scholars in the Renaissance 253:Academie des sciences et des arts 856:. Kessinger Publishing. p.  448:Bibliothèque Nationale de France 367:" to aid the Greeks against the 251:Demetrios Chalkokondyles at the 1084: 1059: 1032: 1014: 936: 841: 818: 667:Geanakoplos, Deno John (1979). 49:. Fresco. Santa Maria Novella, 1292:15th-century Byzantine writers 1184:, London, 1930, pp. 66–9. 1026:Database of Classical Scholars 766: 747: 689: 660: 634: 611: 584: 497:Greek Grammar, edited 1546 by 1: 1297:15th-century writers in Latin 1220:Mathematics Genealogy Project 1135: 848:Hulme, Edward Maslin (2004). 53:, Florence, Italy. 1486–1490. 1322:16th-century Greek educators 1317:15th-century Greek educators 1098:The Cambridge Guide to Homer 671:. D. C. Heath. p. 463. 167: 7: 1267:Greek Renaissance humanists 1225:The "First Edition" of the 1045:. Zone Books. p. 300. 762:(in Italian). Vol. 16. 591:Sandys, John Edwin (1908). 560: 10: 1338: 1307:16th-century Greek writers 1302:15th-century Greek writers 1157:Studies in the Renaissance 774:"Demetrius Chalcocondyles" 754:Petrucci, Armando (1973). 622:. U. Hoepli. p. 108. 522:Ἡ τοῦ Ὁμήρου ποίησις ἅπασα 517:Jacopo Berengario da Carpi 480:of Homer (Florence 1488), 459: 41:Chalkokondyles, detail of 1312:16th-century male writers 507:Latin translation of the 163: 143: 133: 123: 101: 81: 58: 34: 23: 16:Greek scholar (1423–1511) 1216:Demetrios Chalkokondyles 1039:Park, Katharine (2006). 577: 442:) of collected works by 267:, the chronicler of the 177:Demetrius Chalcocondyles 168:Dēmḗtrios Chalkokondýlēs 156:Demetrios Chalkokondyles 25:Demetrios Chalkokondyles 1282:Greek–Latin translators 1067:"Homer Editio Princeps" 929:Encyclopædia Britannica 429: 330:Giovanni Maria Cattaneo 322:Giglio Gregorio Giraldi 271:. He soon moved to the 265:Laonicus Chalcocondyles 242: 179:and found variously as 164:Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης 148:Laonikos Chalkokondyles 43:Zachariah in the Temple 28:Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης 971:Bisaha, Nancy (2006). 943:Bisaha, Nancy (1997). 731:Bisaha, Nancy (1997). 618:Festa, Nicola (1935). 450: 397: 391: 304:Among his pupils were 302: 269:fall of Constantinople 256: 235:(in 1493), and of the 1287:Chalkokondyles family 1107:10.1017/9781139225649 702:Fondazione Cassamarca 567:Chalkokondyles family 509:Anatomical Procedures 484:(Milan 1493) and the 437: 393: 389: 297: 250: 776:. www.britannica.com 544:Constantine Lascaris 390:Gravestone in Milan. 345:Ioannis Argyropoulos 47:Domenico Ghirlandaio 1277:Renaissance writers 1257:Writers from Athens 341:Francesco Philelpho 239:lexicon (in 1499). 51:Cappella Tornabuoni 451: 405:Lorenzo de' Medici 392: 285:Cardinal Bessarion 257: 1272:Byzantine writers 1204:978-0-7156-2418-0 1176:978-1-871328-11-0 1166:Jonathan Harris, 1151:978-0-8122-1976-0 1071:Chetham's Library 1052:978-1-890951-67-2 1007:978-1-85109-772-2 982:978-0-8122-1976-0 895:978-0-554-22523-4 867:978-1-4179-4223-7 811:978-0-472-11055-1 711:978-88-89527-17-7 678:978-0-669-00868-5 554:Michael Apostolis 540:Demetrius Damilas 532:Bernardus Nerlius 463:). 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Chalkokondyles, detail of Zachariah in the Temple by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Fresco. Santa Maria Novella, Cappella Tornabuoni, Florence, Italy. 1486–1490.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Cappella Tornabuoni
Athens
Duchy of Athens
Milan
Duchy of Milan
Scholar
politician
diplomat
philosopher
Greek
Renaissance
Laonikos Chalkokondyles
Greek
Latinized
Greek
Marsilio Ficino
Poliziano
Theodorus Gaza
humanists
Padua
Florence
Milan
Johann Reuchlin
Homer
Isocrates
Suda

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