Donati Graeci : learning Greek in the Renaissance / by Federica Ciccolella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciccolella, Federica.

Series:

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; v. 32.

Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; v. 32

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Study and teaching--History--To 1500.

Greek language.

Greek philology--History--To 1500.

Greek philology.

History.

Greek language--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xxv, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

Contains Greek and Latin texts.

Summary:

The starting point generally acknowledged for the revival of Greek studies in the West is 1397, when the Byzantine Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Florence. With his Erotemata, Chrysoloras gave Westerners a tool to learn Greek; the search for the ideal Greek textbook, however, continued even after the publication of the best Byzantine-humanist grammars. The four Greek Donati edited in this book - 'Latinate' Greek grammars, based on the Latin schoolbook entitled Ianua or Donatus - belong to the many pedagogical experiments documented in manuscripts.

They attest to a tradition of Greek studies that probably originated in Venice and/or Crete: a tradition certainly inferior to the Florentine scholarship in quality and circulation, but still important in the cultural history of the Renaissance.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Latin Donatus 1

1 Aelius Donatus' Artes: A Pedagogical Program 1

2 The Shaping of the Medieval Donatus 8

3 Donatus(es) as Schoolbook(s) 16

4 Ianua 20

5 Ianua(e): Structure and Variants 29

6 Vernacular Donatus(es) 44

7 Donati meliores 47

8 The Association with Disticha Catonis 52

9 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Printed Editions of Ianua 54

10 Learning Latin: Repetition, Memorization, and Translation 56

11 The Latin Curriculum 63

Chapter 2 The Greek Curriculum 75

1 The Position of Greek in Roman Education 77

2 Greek Grammar in the Middle Ages: An Impossible Dream? 85

3 Humanism and the Revival of Greek Studies 97

4 The Byzantine Tradition 103

5 Practicing Greek Grammar: Erotemata, Epimerismoi, and Schedography 109

6 The Making of Humanist Greek Grammar 118

7 Other Grammars and Course Books 124

8 Teaching Greek in Humanist Schools 130

9 Schools of Greek 139

10 Teaching Greek in Greek: Michael Apostolis and the "Direct Method" 146

Chapter 3 Donati graeci 151

1 In Search of the Greek Donatus 152

2 The Four Donati graeci or Pylai 154

3 Pyle a: The Manuscripts 158

4 Pyle a: Toward a Stemma Codicum 172

5 Pyle a as a Grammar Book: The Variable Parts of Speech 180

6 Pyle a as a Grammar Book: The Invariable Parts of Speech and the Appendix 195

7 The Other Donati graeci: Pylai as Compilations or Donati compositi 198

8 The Manuscripts of the Donati compositi 200

9 The Donati compositi as Grammar Books 209

10 The Language of the Greek Donatus: Between Greek and Latin 221

11 The Greek Cato 225

Chapter 4 The Greek Donati and Their Context 229

1 Latin in Byzantium 229

2 Maximus Planudes and the Greek Donatus 237

3 Places of Origin 244

4 Using the Donati graeci in Schools: "Reutilization" and "Superimposition" 259

Donatus graecus a

Siglorum conspectus 263

Textus 266

Appendix latina 398

Donatus graecus b

Siglorum conspectus 401

Textus 403

Donatus graecus c

Siglorum conspectus 429

Textus 430

Donatus graecus d

Siglorum conspectus 493

Textus 495

Donatus graecus a 513

Donatus graecus b 523

Donatus graecus c 529

Donatus graecus d 544

Appendix I Comparing the Four Donati graeci 555

Appendix II The Manuscripts of Ianua 583.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [587]-621) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004163522

9004163522

OCLC:

253839848

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