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MARCUS MUSURUS (c. 147o-1517)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 99 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCUS See also:MUSURUS (c. 147o-1517)  , See also:Greek See also:scholar, was See also:born at Rhithymna (Retimo) in See also:Crete . At an See also:early See also:age he became a See also:pupil of See also:John See also:Lascaris at See also:Venice . In 1505 he was made See also:professor of Greek at See also:Padua, but when the university was closed in 1509 during the See also:war of the See also:league of See also:Cambrai he returned to Venice, where he filled a similar See also:post . In 1516 he was summoned to See also:Rome by See also:Leo X., who appointed him See also:arch-See also:bishop of Monemvasia (See also:Malvasia) in the Peloponnese, but he died before he See also:left See also:Italy . Since 1493 See also:Musurus had been associated with the famous printer Aldus See also: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 See also:classics were brought out under Musurus's supervision, and he is credited with the first See also:editions of the scholia of See also:Aristophanes (1498), See also:Athenaeus (1514), See also:Hesychius (1514), See also:Pausanias (1516) . See R . Menge's De M . Musuri vita studiis ingenio, in vol . 5 of M . See also:Schmidt's edition of Hesychius (1868) .

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