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LASCARIS, CONSTANTINE (d. 1493 or 1500) , Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in Italy, was born at Constantinople . He was a member of the noble Bithynian family, which had furnished three emperors of Nicaea during the 13th century. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he took refuge
Corfu and then in Italy, where Francesco Sforza
Milan , appointed him Greek tutor to his daughter. Here was published his Grammatica Graeca, sive compendium octo orationis parlium, remarkable as being the first book entirely in Greek issued from the printing press
Milan , Lascaris taught in Rome under the patronage of Cardinal Bessarion, and in Naples, whither he had been summoned by Ferdinand I. to deliver a course of lectures on Greece
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The Grammatica, which has often been reprinted, is the only work
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