MUSURUS, MARCUS (c. 147o-1517)

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MUSURUS, MARCUS (c. 147o-1517) ,

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

scholar, was born at Rhithymna (Retimo) in

Crete

CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

. At an early age he became a

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

of John Lascaris at Venice. In 1505 he was made professor of

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

at Padua, but when the university was closed in 1509 during the war of the league of

Cambrai

CAMBRAI

he
returned to Venice, where he filled a similar post. In 1516 he was summoned to Rome by Leo X., who appointed him

arch

ARCH
ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

bishop

of Monemvasia (Malvasia) in the Peloponnese, but he died before he left

Italy

ITALY
ITALY (Italia)

. Since 1493

Musurus

MUSURUS, MARCUS (c. 147o-1517)

had been associated with the famous printer Aldus Manutius, and belonged to the "Neacademia," a society founded by Manutius and other learned men for the promotion of Greek studies. Many of the Aldine classics were brought out under

Musurus

MUSURUS, MARCUS (c. 147o-1517)

's supervision, and he is credited with the first editions of the scholia of Aristophanes (1498), Athenaeus (1514), Hesychius (1514), Pausanias (1516).
See R. Menge's De M. Musuri vita studiis ingenio, in vol. 5 of M. Schmidt's edition of Hesychius (1868).

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