academies
Are societies or institutions for the cultivation and promotion of literature, the arts or science, or of some particular branch of science such as medicine, for example, the Académie de ...
Conrad Peutinger
(1465–1547),German humanist and antiquarian, born in Augsburg on 15 October 1465. After a period (1482–8) studying law in Italy, where he met Poliziano and Pico Della Mirandola, Peutinger became ...
Demetrius Chalcondyles
(1423–1511),Greek scholar in Italy. Chalcondyles was an Athenian who lived in the circle of Bessarion in Rome and in 1464 became the first holder of the professorship of Greek ...
Ermolao Barbaro
(c.1454–93) Venetian humanist and diplomat.He gained fame as a classical scholar for his textual criticism of Pliny the Elder and for his Latin translations of Greek philosophical texts. A ...
Giorgio Merula
(c.1430–1494),Italian humanist, born in Alessandria (near Turin) and educated in Milan under Filelfo. He subsequently taught Greek in Mantua and Venice until 1483, when he accepted the invitation of ...
Greek scholarship
From the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, knowledge of Greek in the West was patchy, except in the isolated Greek communities of southern Italy and Sicily, and for centuries western ...
imitatio
Although the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, mimesis refers to the act of representing reality through art, while imitatio is a relationship between texts, in which one writer or ...
John Argyropoulos
(c.1405–1487),Byzantine scholar in Italy. Argyropoulos studied at the University of Padua from 1441 to 1444, learning Latin and medicine and privately teaching Greek; he was supported throughout this ...
Latin prose style
The period from the Church Fathers to the early Renaissance saw the evolution of various distinctive ways of writing Latin prose.1. Overview of Latin prose styles in the MA2. Prose rhythm3. ...
Leo X
(1475–1521),Pope from 11 March 1513 until his death on 1 December 1521, was born Giovanni de'Medici in Florence on 11 December 1475, the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici. ...
Mantua
Northern Italian city of Etruscan origin, then a Roman municipium positioned beyond the Po river and naturally protected on three sides by the waters of the Mincio river, Mantua, Virgil’s ...
Marin Sanudo
(1466–1536),Venetian diarist and historian, born on 22 May 1466, the son of the Venetian senator Leonardo Sanuto; he was orphaned at the age of 8, and his inheritance was ...
Medici Villas
The Medici family had a suite of fourteen villas near Florence, of which the most important were situated in Careggi, Castello, Fiesole, and Poggio a Caiano; in the sixteenth century the family also ...
Poliziano, Angelo (1454–94) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
A Medici protégé, he had easy access to ancient literature; through intense study of it he made striking advances in the denomination, classification, and emendation of classical MSS, as ...
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Poliziano, Angelo Ambrogini Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
(1454–94),
Italian humanist, distinguished poet, and Hellenist. He was born in Montepulciano and lived for most of his life in Florence, where he secured the patronage of Lorenzo ...
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Poliziano (Politian), Angelo (1454–94) Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
In 1473 he entered the household of Lorenzo de’ *Medici, who admired his precocious scholarship. A leader in Florentine
Visual Arts
For the past one hundred fifty years, conditions of ignorance and suppression have been challenged by black women artists whose work reflects the exhilaration of social and political change. Now ...
William Grocyn
(?1449–1519), English Renaissance scholar. He studied Greek and Latin in Florence from 1488 to 1490/91, when he returned to Oxford to give the first public lectures in Greek. His learning was much ...
