See also:LASCARIS, JOANNES [See also:JOHN], or See also:JANUS (c. 1445-1535)
, See also:Greek See also:scholar, probably the younger See also:brother of See also:Constantine See also:Lascaris, surnamed Rhyndacenus from the See also:river Rhyndacus in See also:Bithynia, his native See also:province
.
After the fall of See also:Constantinople he was taken to the Peloponnese, thence to See also:Crete, and ultimately found See also:refuge in See also:Florence at the See also:court of Lorenzo de' See also:Medici, whose intermediary he was with the See also:sultan Bayezid II. in the See also:purchase of Greek See also:MSS. for the Medicean library
.
On the See also:expulsion of the Medici from Florence, at the invitation of See also:Charles VIII. of See also:France, Lascaris removed to See also:Paris (1495), where he gave public instruction in Greek
.
By See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XII. be was several times employed on public See also:missions, amongst others to See also:Venice (1503-1508), and in 1515 he appears to have accepted the invitation of See also:Leo X. to take See also:charge of the Greek See also:college he had founded at See also:Rome
.
We afterwards (1518) find Lascaris employed along with Budaeus (See also:Bude) by See also:Francis I. in the formation of the royal library at See also:Fontainebleau, and also again sent in the service of the See also:French See also:crown to Venice
.
He died at Rome, whither he had been summoned by See also:Pope See also:Paul III., in 1535
.
Among his pupils was See also:Musurus
.
Amongst other See also:works, Lascaris edited or wrote: Anthologia epigranzmatum Graecorum (1494), in which he ascribed the collection of the See also:Anthology to See also:Agathias, not to See also:Planudes; See also:Didymi Alexandrini scholia in Diadem (1517); Porphyrius of See also:Tyre's Homericarum quaestionum See also:liber (1518); De veris Graecarum litterarum formis ac causis apud antiquos (Paris, 1556)
.
See H
.
See also:Hody, De Graecis illustribus (See also:London, 1742); W
.
See also:Roscoe, See also:Life of Leo X. ii
.
(1846); C
.
F
.
Borner, De doctis hominibus Graecis (See also:Leipzig, 1750) ; A
.
Horawitz in See also:Ersch & See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie; J
.
E
.
See also:Sandys, Hist
.
Class
.
Schol., ed
.
2, vols. ii
.
(1908), p
.
78
.
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