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LASCARIS, JOANNES [JOHN], or JANUS (c. 1445-1535)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 232 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LASCARIS, JOANNES [JOHN], or JANUS (c. 1445-1535) , Greek scholar, probably the younger brother of
Constantine
  Lascaris, surnamed Rhyndacenus from the river Rhyndacus in Bithynia, his native province. After the fall of
Constantinople
  he was taken to the Peloponnese, thence to
Crete
 , and ultimately found
refuge
  in Florence at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici, whose intermediary he was with the sultan Bayezid II. in the purchase of Greek MSS. for the Medicean library. On the expulsion of the Medici from Florence, at the invitation of Charles VIII. of France, Lascaris removed to Paris (1495), where he gave public instruction in Greek. By Louis XII. be was several times employed on public missions, amongst others to Venice (1503-1508), and in 1515 he appears to have accepted the invitation of Leo X. to take charge of the Greek college he had founded at Rome. We afterwards (1518) find Lascaris employed along with Budaeus (Bude) by Francis I. in the formation of the royal library at
Fontainebleau
 , and also again sent in the service of the French crown to Venice. He died at Rome, whither he had been summoned by
Pope
  Paul III., in 1535. Among his pupils was Musurus.
Amongst other works, Lascaris edited or wrote: Anthologia epigranzmatum Graecorum (1494), in which he ascribed the collection of the
Anthology
  to
Agathias
 , not to Planudes; Didymi Alexandrini scholia in Diadem (1517); Porphyrius of Tyre's Homericarum quaestionum liber (1518); De veris Graecarum litterarum formis ac causis apud antiquos (Paris, 1556). See H. Hody, De Graecis illustribus (London, 1742); W. Roscoe, Life of Leo X. ii. (1846); C. F. Borner, De doctis hominibus Graecis (
Leipzig
 , 1750) ; A. Horawitz in Ersch & Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie; J. E. Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol., ed. 2, vols. ii. (1908), p. 78.


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