cardinal basilios bessarion was the source of the many writings and texts the renaissance scholars studied.
cardinal basilios bessarion was the source of the many writings and texts the renaissance scholars studied.
who was the source of the many writings and texts the renaissance scholars studied?
cardinal basilios bessarion
renaissance scholars such as niccolò de' niccoli and poggio bracciolini scoured the libraries in search of works by such classical authors as plato, cicero and vitruvius. the works of ancient greek and hellenistic writers (such as plato, aristotle, euclid, and ptolemy) and muslim scientists were imported into the christian world, providing new intellectual material for european scholars. 15th-century writers such as the poet poliziano and the platonist philosopher marsilio ficino made extensive translations from both latin and greek. other greek scholars of the period were two monks from the monastery of seminara in calabria. they were barlaam of seminara and his disciple leonzio pilato of seminara. barlaam was a master in greek and was the initial teacher to petrarch and giovanni boccaccio of the language. leonzio pilato made an almost word for word translation of homer's works into latin for giovanni boccaccio.
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in stark contrast to the high middle ages, when latin scholars focused almost entirely on studying greek and arabic works of natural science, philosophy and mathematics, renaissance scholars were most interested in recovering and studying latin and greek literary, historical, and oratorical texts. broadly speaking, this began in the 14th century with a latin phase, when renaissance scholars such as petrarch, coluccio salutati (1331–1406), niccolò de' niccoli (1364–1437) and poggio bracciolini (1380–1459) scoured the libraries of europe in search of works by such latin authors as cicero, lucretius, livy and seneca. by the early 15th century, the bulk of the surviving such latin literature had been recovered; the greek phase of renaissance humanism was under way, as western european scholars turned to recovering ancient greek literary, historical, oratorical and theological texts.
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