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Thomás Flangínis (grec moderne: Θωμάς Φλαγγίνης, italien: Tommaso Flangini; 1578-1648) est un riche avocat et commerçant grec[1],[2],[3] à Venise, qui fonde le Collège Flanginien, un collège grec où nombre d'enseignants est formé[4]. Le « Collège Flanginien », fondé par Thomás Flangínis, reste un établissement renommé pendant plusieurs siècles[5].
«Immediately adjacent again is the imposing Collegio Flangini...built from the legacy of Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek merchant whose family had been enrolled in the Venetian patriciate in 1664;»
(en) Steven Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence, Cambridge University Press, (ISBN0-521-31310-4, lire en ligne), p.212:
«In 1626 a rich Venetian Greek, Thomas Flanginis, presented the colony with a large sum of money to be spent on education;»
(en) Steven Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence, Cambridge University Press, (ISBN0-521-31310-4, lire en ligne), p.212
(en) Nikiforos P. Diamandouros, Hellenism and the first Greek war of liberation (1821-1830): continuity and change, Institute for Balkan Studies, (OCLC3734742), p.67:
«In 1626 a Cypriot, Thomas Flanginis, took the step of establishing in Venice what remained for about two centuries the most famous higher school established by a Greek for Greeks in Western Europe. This so-called Flangeneion school ...»
(en) Institut für Griechisch-Römische Altertumskunde, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Berliner byzantinistische Arbeiten, Akademie-Verlag, (ISSN0067-6055), p.229:
«Thomas Flangini. He was born at Venice In 1579 of Apostólos Thomas of Corfu, and María daughter of Vincent Flangini, of Cyprus. His father held an eminent position in the Greek Community of Venice, but left him orphan vегу soon.»