Byzantine scholar Dimitry Halkokondil in cultural space of the Renaissance Florence Cover Image

Византийский ученый Димитрий Халкокондил в культурном пространстве ренессансной Флоренции
Byzantine scholar Dimitry Halkokondil in cultural space of the Renaissance Florence

Author(s): Pavel A. Ryazanov, Lidia Vladislavovna Sofronova
Subject(s): Education, Cultural history, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: epistolary heritage; Renaissance; Erasmus; John Colet; intellectual and social context; patronage;

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates Dimitry Halkokondil's – a Greek scholaremigrant of the 15th century – influence on humanistic culture of the Renaissance Florence during its blossoming. Analyzed are the contacts of the scholar with representatives of church, political and cultural elite of Italy of that time as well as his pedagogical activity. Noted is Halkokondil's contribution to distribution and deepening the Florentines interest in antique tradition, in the Greek-Byzantine culture which contributed to the expansion of the Italian Renaissance thought horizon.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 83-96
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian