Konstantinos Laskaris

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Konstantinos Laskaris (around 1785)
Quintus von Smyrna , Posthomerica I 1–22 in a manuscript written by Konstantinos Laskaris in 1496. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana , Vaticanus Ottobonianus graecus 103, fol. 5r
A text written by hand by Konstantinos Laskaris in the period 1458/1465. Manuscript Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 4627, fol. 5r

Konstantinos Laskaris ( Middle Greek Κωνσταντῖνος Λάσκαρις , * between June 14, 1433 and June 14, 1434 in Constantinople ; † around August 15, 1501 in Messina ) was a Byzantine scholar and humanist .

Konstantinos Laskaris was initially a student of Johannes Argyropulos , one of the most important scholars of the Renaissance . In 1453, after the fall of Constantinople , he came into exile in Italy through the mediation of Cardinal Bessarion . In 1460 he went to the Duke's court in Milan, where he was employed by Francesco Sforza as a tutor for his daughter Hippolyta.

Here he quickly became the center of a circle of humanists. Laskaris taught Greek at the universities of Rome and Naples (1465) and from 1468 until his death in Messina , where Pietro Bembo and Michelangelo Florio were among his students.

Konstantinos Laskaris was the author of the Greek grammar Ἐρωτήματα ( Erotemata "Questions"), which was printed in 1476 by Dionysius Paravisinus for Demetrius Damilas in Milan. His grammar was the first Greek book printed in Italy. Further editions were organized by Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), first in 1494 together with a Latin translation, which was also known in connection with the history of typography . Konstantinos Laskaris gave the city 76 volumes for the library.

literature

  • A. De Rosalia: La vita di Costantino Lascaris. In: Archivio Storico Siciliano s. 3, Vol. 9, 1957-58, pp. 21-70.
  • Teresa Martínez Manzano: Konstantinos Laskaris. Humanist, philologist, teacher, copyist (= Meletemata 4). Division II, Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3925793046 .
  • Teresa Martínez Manzano: Constantino Láscaris, semblanza de un humanista bizantino (= Nueva Roma 7). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 1998 ISBN 84-00-07761-X . *
  • Attilio Russo: Costantino Lascaris tra fama e oblio nel Cinquecento messinese . In: Archivio Storico Messinese , LXXIV-LXXXV, Messina 2003-2004, 5-87.
  • Massimo Ceresa:  Lascaris, Costantino. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 63:  Labroca-Laterza. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2004.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of his will, the date of death is not known exactly, but should be soon after, as Laskaris died of the plague .
  2. ^ Synthetic biography on the life of Michel Agnolo Florio , pg. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Laskaris, Konstantinos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laskaris, Constantine; Laskaris, Konstandinos; Κωνσταντίνος Λάσκαρις
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Byzantine scholar and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH between June 14, 1433 and June 14, 1434
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH after August 15, 1501
Place of death Messina