Laonikos Chalkokondyles
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Laonikos Chalkokondyles, also latinized as Laonicus Chalcocondyles, was a late medieval Greek historian from Athens. He is known for his Demonstrations of Histories in ten books, which record the last
Early modern painting of Laonikos Chalkokondyles
Demetrios Chalkokondyles
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Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Latinized as Demetrius Chalcocondyles and found variously as Demetricocondyles, Chalcocondylas or Chalcondyles, was one of the most eminent Greek scholars in the West. He tau
Laonikos Chalkokondyles
…Laonicus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 804. There is a biographical sketch of Laonicus and his brother, Demetrius Chalcondyles in Greek by Antonius Calosynas, a physician of Toledo, who lived in the latter part of the sixteenth century: see Hopf, C. (1873). Chroniques Gréco-romanes…
Chalkokondyles, detail of Zachariah in the Temple by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Fresco. Santa Maria Novella, Cappella Tornabuoni, Florence, Italy. 1486–1490.
Demetrios Chalkokondyles at the Academie des sciences et des arts, 1682
Gravestone in Milan.
Page from the first printed edition (editio princeps) of collected works by Homer edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles. Florence, 1489. Bibliothèque Nationale de France