Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism

• Main Author: Orlandi, Luigi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2023
• Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Regional studies; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Ethics & moral philosophy; Manuscript collections; Late Byzantine émigrés; Greek handwriting; Renaissance
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Summary

Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos' scholarly and scribal activity by adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological and paleographic data, in order to shed light on his role at the time of the transfer of Greek cultural heritage to Italy and, hence, throughout Europe.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (623 p.)

ISBN

9783111203447
9783111203331

Access

Open Access