Download or read book Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism written by Luigi Orlandi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos' scholarly and scribal activity by adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological and paleographic data, in order to shed light on his role at the time of the transfer of Greek cultural heritage to Italy and, hence, throughout Europe.