Musuros, Marcos

Musuros was born around 1470 in Rethymnon on the island of Crete , then under Venetian control. He received his primary education in Greek at the school of St. Catherine of Sinai in Handaka . In 1486, he went to study in Florence , where he studied under Ianos Laskaris . After that, he returned to Crete , but soon returned to Italy and settled in Venice . There he was admitted as an assistant and researcher to the printing house of Alda Manucius . In 1500, with the recommendation of the latter, he went to Carpi, a town near Ferrara and taught the Greek and Latin duke Alberto Pio. However, he soon returned to Venice, where he periodically taught at the New Academy , a society created by local scholars to study and popularize the Greek language and publications. In recognition of his abilities, the Senate of Venice awarded him in 1503 the title of Publica Graecarum Literarum Officina , that is, the title of Censor of Greek books published in Venice and its possessions, the contents of which should be in accordance with the Christian religion and ethics. He remained in this post until 1516. In 1504, Musuros was appointed professor of Greek in Venice and two years later in Padua . Erasmus of Rotterdam , who attended his lectures, wrote that Musuros: "... a husband of many knowledge and a scientist, a speaker of the Greek key and an excellent expert in the Latin voice ...". However, when the university was closed in 1509, during the Cambrian War he returned to Venice, where in 1512, after the re-creation of the Greek language department, he again became a professor. In 1516, Musuros was invited to Rome by Pope Leo X to help Laskaris organize the papal Greek gymnasium and teach the Greek language in it. Here he organized a Greek printing house. In Rome, he became a priest. In recognition of the Greek poem, the introduction to the first edition of Plato , Pope Leo X appointed him Archbishop of the city ​​of Monemvasia (then called the Latins of Malvasia) in the Peloponnese . But after a two-month illness, Musuros died in Rome on November 25, 1517, shortly before his departure.

The typography of Alda Manucius was published, in 1497, Dictionarium graecum copiosissimum with the epigram of Musuros, in 1498, nine comedies of Aristophanes were edited by Musuros, and in 1499, two volumes of work by Greek writers of the Epistolary (Greek Ελληνες Επισφοο self letters from 26 classic and early Christian writers. This was followed by the publication of 17 tragedies of Euripides , edited by Musuros (1503-1504). In 1512, Manucius and Musuros published the “Greek Grammar” by Manuel Chrysolor and in September 1513 the Complete Collection of Plato with the dedication of Musuros to Pope Leo. In the next two years, the works of Athenaeus (1514), Ishihia (1514) Theocritus (1515) were published. In 1515, the Venetian Senate handed over to Musuros 800 manuscripts of Vissarion for archiving. These manuscripts marked the beginning of the first sections of the Markian Library of Venice. In the same year, Musuros published in Florence Alievic (Greek Αλιευτικά - the art of fishing) Oppian and in 1516 16 speeches of Gregory the Theologian and Pausanias with dedication to Laskaris. Among the valuable manuscripts of Musuros is his dedication epigram for the publication of Zacharias Kallergis “Etymologicum Magnum” ^{[7] [8]}

• This article (section) contains text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which went into the public domain .
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