Donati Graeci. Learning Greek in the Renaissance.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat rubbed jacket with a scratch/damage in the back, slightly bleached spine, otherwise very good. / Etwas beriebener Umschlag mit einem Kratzer/Besch�gung auf der hinteren Seite, leicht verblichener R�cken, sonst sehr gut. - The starting point generally acknowledged for the revival of Greek studies in the West is 1397, when the Byzantine Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Florence. With his Erotemata, Chrysoloras gave Westerners a tool to learn Greek; the search for the ideal Greek textbook, however, continued even after the publication of the best Byzantine-humanist grammars. The four Greek Donati edited in this book - �Latinate� Greek grammars, based on the Latin schoolbook entitled lanua or Donatus � belong to the many pedagogical experiments documented in manuscripts. They attest to a tradition of Greek studies that probably originated in Venice and/or Crete: a tradition certainly inferior to the Florentine scholarship in quality and circulation, but still important in the cultural history of the Renaissance. - Federica Ciccolella, Dottorato (1991) in Classics, Universita di Torino and Ph.D. (2004) in Classical Studies, Columbia University, is Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. She has published on Byzantine poetry {Cinque poeti bizantini, Alessandria 2000) and the reception of antiquity in the Renaissance.