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
Engraving of Maurolico
Quadrati fabrica et eius usus, 1546
1654 edition of Conica by Apollonius of Perga edited by Francesco Maurolico
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.
Francesco Maurolico
…Penuccia. His father was a Greek physician who fled Constantinople when the Ottomans invaded the city. Antonio had studied with the Neoplatonic Hellenist Constantine Lascaris, so Francesco received a "Lascarian" education through his father and from Francesco Faraone and Giacomo Genovese, also disciples of Lascaris, whose…
Constantine Lascaris as depicted by Paolo Fidanza (18th century).
Constantine Lascaris writing his Grammatica as depicted by Pierre de Nolhac. (1887)