Demetrios Zenos
Demetrios Zenos (Δημήτριος Ζηνός, Dēmētrios Zēnós or Dimítrios Zinós ; * around 1500, † around 1540) was a Greek corrector and author in Venice .
He was born around 1500 on the Greek island of Zakynthos . He went to Venice, where he was promoted by Andreas Kunadis and Damiano Santa Maria. He worked as a proofreader in the printing works of the brothers Giovanni Antonio and Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio for their prints in Greek. He also worked as a copyist and translator.
In 1530 he wrote a modern Greek paraphrase of the late Hellenistic Batrachomyomachia . After 1540 there is no more news about him.
In 1837 Friedrich Wilhelm August Mullach published an annotated bilingual Greek-Latin edition of his Batrachomyomachia paraphrases .
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- ↑ Demetrii Zeni Paraphrasis Batrachomyomachiae vulgari Graecorum sermone scripta. Quam collatis superioribus editionibus recensuit, interpretatione Latina instruxit et commentariis illustravit Fr. Guil. Aug. Mullachius. Berlin 1837
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zenos, Demetrios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zinos, Dimitrios; Zēnos, Dēmētrios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek proofreader and author in Venice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1540 |