Demetrios Chalkokondyles
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Demetrios Chalkokondyles (Greek: Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης Dēmḗtrios Chalkokondýlēs), Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles (1423 – 9 January 1511)[12] was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West. He taught in Italy for over forty years; his colleagues included Marsilio Ficino, Poliziano, and Theodorus Gaza in the revival of letters in the Western world, and Chalkokondyles was the last of the Greek humanists who taught Greek literature at the great universities of the Italian Renaissance (Padua, Florence, Milan). One of his pupils at Florence was the famous Johann Reuchlin. Chalkokondyles published the first printed publications of Homer (in 1488), of Isocrates (in 1493), and of the Suda lexicon (in 1499).[13]
Demetrios Chalkokondyles Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης | |
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Born | August 1423 Athens, Duchy of Athens |
Died | 9 January 1511(1511-01-09) (aged 87) Milan, Duchy of Milan |
Occupation | Scholar, politician, diplomat, philosopher |
Nationality | Greek[11] |
Literary movement | Renaissance |
Relatives | Laonikos Chalkokondyles |