Marcus Musurus

Marcus Musurus

Markos Musuros Greek Μάρκος Μουσούρος, Latinized Marcus Musurus , (* around 1470 in Retimo on Crete ; † 1517 in Rome ) was a Greek - Italian scholar and humanist .

Life

Musurus came to Florence around 1490 to study with Andreas Johannes Laskaris . Towards the end of 1494 or from the beginning of 1495 he was in Venice. From 1503 he taught Greek at the University of Padua , from 1512 in Venice , and was the chief Greek editor for Aldus Manutius in Venice. On July 8, 1499, the first printed edition of the Etymologicum magnum came out, which appeared in the office of Zacharias Kallierges in Venice with a foreword by Musurus. He also put together a Greek grammar. On December 5, 1514, Musurus enrolled in the Brotherhood of the Greek Orthodox in Venice ( Scuola de San Nicolò dei Greci ), and renewed his membership on December 5, 1515. His reputation prompted Pope Leo X. to invite him to Rome and to appoint him archbishop of a Greek archdiocese. He taught Greek at a teaching institute set up by the Pope. He died a year after arriving in Rome.

literature

• Alexandre Embiricos: La Renaissance crétoise. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1960, pp. 58-59.
• Paolo Pellegrini:  Musuro, Marco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77:  Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.