Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism / / Luigi Orlandi.

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the nineteenth century within the frame of the studies on Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance. Researchers have only glimpsed the depth of Kallistos’ erudit...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures , 32
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIX, 623 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Towards a New Biographical Profile
  • 2 Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space: On Kallistos’ Scribal Activity!"
  • 3 The Fate of Andronikos’ Books
  • 4 Writing and Learning Greek at the School of Andronikos Kallistos
  • 5 From the Desk of a Byzantine Philologist
  • 6 Andronikos’ Traces in Manuscripts: A Summary Catalogue
  • Appendix: Texts
  • 1 Defence of Theodoros Gazes against Michael Apostoles
  • 2 Monody on wretched Constantinople
  • 3 Diairesis on the science of physics
  • 4 Letter to Palla Strozzi!
  • 5 Letters to Demetrios <Chalkondyles>
  • 6 Letter to Georgios Disypatos Palaiologos
  • 7 Epigram to Homer
  • 8 Epigram in praise of Bessarion’s book In Calumniatorem Platonis!
  • 9 Epigrams on the death of Albiera
  • Plate
  • Reference
  • Index of names
  • Index of manuscripts, incunabula, and archival sources
  • Index of main watermarks