See also: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 (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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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