From Byzantium To Italy by A. N. Wilson
Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
A concise study of how Greek learning moved from the Byzantine world into Renaissance Italy, tracing the flow of manuscripts, teachers, and ideas that transformed humanist scholarship. It highlights the roles of scholars, patrons, and institutions in teaching Greek, copying and collecting texts, translating and editing classical works, and eventually printing them, especially in centers like Florence and Venice. By showing how these practical networks reshaped philology, philosophy, and education, it explains the profound, lasting impact of this transfer of knowledge on European intellectual life.
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- 1992
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- British
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- English
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