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PILATUS, LEO, or LEONTIUS [LEONZIo PILATO] (d. 1366)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 603 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
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
  importance lies in his connexion with Petrarch and Boccaccio. He made a bald and almost word for word
translation
  of
Homer
  into Latin
prose
  for Boccaccio, subsequently sent to Petrarch, who owed his introduction to the poet to
Pilatus
  and was anxious to obtain a complete
translation
 . Pilatus also furnished Boccaccio with the material for his genealogy of the gods, in which he made an ostentatious display of Greek learning.
See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. 66; G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des classischen Alterthums (1893); H.
Hody
 , De Graecis illustribus (1742); G.
Tiraboschi
 , Storia della letteratura italiana, v. 691.


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