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The basic reader of the great Humanists, written by the pioneer in spreading Greek literature in the West

CHRYSOLORAS, (Manuel).
Erotemata. (In Greek).

Small woodcut printer's device on title and same large device on colophon last leaf.



Venice, Victor Raban, 1540. Small 8vo. Later half calf, spine with black title-label, red marbled edges. Small woodcut printer's device on title and same large device on colophon last leaf. 270, (2, last blank) pp.

Early edition in Greek of this original grammar and vocabulary of the Greek language written by Manuel Chrysoloras to teach the Florentines Greek. Chrysoloras was sent to Italy by the Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus to solicit aid for the Greeks in their war against the Turcs. He was chosen for this mission because of his diplomatic skills and great intelligence. After his arrival in Italy he was invited to Florence to teach Greek over there and in this way he helped to revive the study of Greece in the Christian West. As he was the first to bring the people of Florence in contact with Greek, he had to start with the basics and for that purpose he wrote is Erotemata, the original Greek grammar and vocabulary text. As he insisted on very good, clear and exact translations he is also considered as the father of modern translation.Chrysoloras taught at many universities. After being a professor at Florence till 1396 he was in Bologna till 1400 and later in Venice, Paris and Rome. He died in 1415 in Constance, Germany. It is supposed that he was at the age of 40-45 when he came to Italy and that he was born in Greece around 1353 in Constantinople as the son of a wealthy and powerful family. The work was first published in Greek at the end of the 15th century. Victor Raban printed this version for the first time in 1531 and for the second time in 1540.
Good copy with ms. signature on title-page and many ms. notes in margins.- (Recased: ms. notes in margins cut short, waterstained).
Cf. Ritter 476 (Strasbourg 4to edition 1516); STC Italian, p. 172.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Classical Antiquity  Humanism 

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