GHU Logo
The Great Heights University Library
Academic discovery, digital access, and research support

Donati Graeci : learning Greek in the Renaissance /

Ciccolella, Federica.

Donati Graeci : learning Greek in the Renaissance / by Federica Ciccolella. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2008 . - Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 32. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004222793. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-621) and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Chapter One. The latin donatus / Chapter Two. The greek curriculum / Chapter Three. Donati graeci / Chapter Four. The greek Donati and their context / Text / Bibliography / Index / Ciccolella -- Ciccolella -- Ciccolella -- Ciccolella -- Ciccolella -- Ciccolella -- Ciccolella -- Ciccolella.

Available to subscribing member institutions only.

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.


Contains Greek and Latin texts.

9789047442943

10.1163/ej.9789004163522.I-646 DOI

2008039458


Greek language--History--To 1500.
Greek philology--History--To 1500.

PA57 / .C53 2008

480.71