Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of figures IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Through the Eyes of the Greeks: Byzantine Émigrés and the Study of Greek in the Renaissance 9
7. Janus Lascaris’ Florentine Oration and the ‘Reception’ of Ancient Aeolism 27
8. Manuel Calecas’ Grammar: Its Use and Contribution to the Learning of Greek in Western Europe 51
9. Issues in Translation: Plutarch’s Moralia Translated from Greek into Latin by Iacopo d’Angelo 67
10. Translating from Greek (and Latin) into Latin: Niccolò Perotti and Plutarch’s On the Fortune of the Romans 79
11. Humanist Translations and Rewritings: Lucian’s Encomium of the Fly between Guarino and Alberti 95
12. Cardinal Bessarion and the Introduction of Plato to the Latin West 109
13. The Reception of Aeschylus in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Coriolano Martirano’s Prometheus Bound (1556) 125
14. Rethinking the Birth of French Tragedy 143
15. ‘Pantagruel, tenent un Heliodore Grec en main [...] sommeilloit’: Reading the Aethiopica in Sixteenth-Century France 157
16. From Greek to the Greeks: Homer (and Pseudo-Homer) in the Greco-Venetian Context between the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century 175
17. The Wanderings of a Greek Manuscript from Byzantium to Aldus’ Printing House and Beyond: The Story of the Aristotle Ambr. B 7 inf. 195
18. The Reception of Horace’s Odes in the First Book of Marcantonio Flaminio’s Carmina 213
19. Orazio Romano’s Porcaria (1453): Humanist Epic between Classical Legacy and Contemporary History 233
20. List of Contributors 253
21. Index 255