From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance

Wilson, N. G.

ISBN 10: 0801845637 / ISBN 13: 9780801845635

Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, U.S.A., 1992

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200 Pages. Dust Jacket Slightly Worn With A Few Tears.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801845637
• ISBN 13: 9780801845635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval and Renaissance

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Synopsis

Having all but disappeared from western literacy during the Middle Ages, classical Greek would recover a position of importance--eventually equal to that of classical Latin--only after a series of surprising failures, chance encounters, and false starts. Continuing the story he began in his acclaimed study Scholars of Byzantium, N. G. Wilson describes how the classical heritage preserved by the Byzantines was transmitted to a vigorous culture, first in fourteenth-century Florence and then throughout Italy.

Review

"No one can talk about Greek scholarship in the Italian Renaissance without taking Wilson's book into account... He has filled in grand fashion a long-standing lacuna in the history of the Renaissance and classical scholarship." -- Renaissance Quarterly