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PILATUS, LEO, or LEONTIUS [LEONZIo PILATO] (d. 1366) , one of the earliest promoters of Greek studies in western Europe, was a native of Thessalonica. According to Petrarch, he was a Calabrian, who posed as a Greek in Italy and as an Italian abroad. In 136o he went to Florence at the invitation of Boccaccio, by whose influence he was appointed to a lectureship in Greek at the Studio, the first appointment of the kind in the west. After three years he accompanied Boccaccio to Venice on a visit to Petrarch, whom he had already met at Padua. Petrarch, disgusted with his manners and habits, despatched him to Constantinople to purchase MSS. of classical authors. Pilatus soon tired of his mission and, although Petrarch refused to receive him again, set sail for Venice. Just outside the Adriatic Gulf he was struck dead by lightning. His chief
translation
Homer into Latin prose
Pilatus and was anxious to obtain a complete translation
See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. 66; G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums (1893); H. Hody
Tiraboschi
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