From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance by Wilson, N. G.

From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474250474)

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From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance by Wilson, N. G.

From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance

$42.95
From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance by Wilson, N. G.

From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance

$42.95
Format: Paperback
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Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes - in Latin translation - when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but underestimate the importance of Plato himself? Having all but disappeared during the Middle Ages, classical Greek would recover a position of importance - eventually equal to that of classical Latin - only after a series of surprising failures, chance encounters, and false starts.

This important study of the rediscovery and growing influence of classical Greek scholarship in Italy from the 14th to the early 16th centuries is brought up to date in a new edition that reflects on the recent developments in the field of classical reception studies, and contains fully up-to-date references to aid students and scholars. From a leading authority on Greek palaeography in the English-speaking world, here is a complete account of the historic rediscovery of Greek philosophy, language and literature during the Renaissance, brought up-to-date for a modern audience of classicists, historians, and students and scholars of reception studies and the Classical Tradition.

Author: N. G. Wilson
ISBN-10: 1474250475
ISBN-13: 9781474250474
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2016
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
By N. G. Wilson
By N. G. Wilson
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N. G. Wilson is Emeritus Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK. He has published widely on Greek palaeography, textual criticism and the history of classical scholarship including Scholars of Byzantium (1983), revised ed. (1996).

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