Constantine Lascaris
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Constantine Lascaris was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in Italy during the Renaissance, born in Constantinople.
Constantine Lascaris as depicted by Paolo Fidanza (18th century).
Constantine Lascaris writing his Grammatica as depicted by Pierre de Nolhac. (1887)
Francesco Maurolico
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Francesco Maurolico was an Italian mathematician and astronomer from the Kingdom of Sicily. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. He edited
Constantine Lascaris
…and, in Messina, Pietro Bembo, Angelo Gabrieli, Urbano Valeriani, Cola Bruno, Bernardino Rizzo, Francesco Faraone, Antonio Maurolico (the father of Francesco Maurolico), Francesco Giannelli and Cristóbal Escobar. Lascaris bequeathed his library of valuable manuscripts of philosophy, science and magic to the Senate of…
Engraving of Maurolico
Quadrati fabrica et eius usus, 1546
1654 edition of Conica by Apollonius of Perga edited by Francesco Maurolico