Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus: Difference between revisions

Thomaeus was born in [[Venice, Italy|Venice]], [[Italy]] on February 1, 1456 to an [[Albanians|Albanian]]<ref name="Favaretto2002">{{cite book|author=Irene Favaretto|title=Arte antica e cultura antiquaria nelle collezioni venete al tempo della Serenissima|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=zVAVx-cfE6gC&pg=PA100|year=2002|publisher=L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER|isbn=978-88-8265-223-4|page=100|quote=Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, figlio di un rifugiato albanese, nacque a Venezia nel 1456}}</ref> [[Greeks|Greek]] family from [[Epirus]].<ref name=Ossa-Richardson>{{harvnb|Ossa-Richardson|2013|loc=p. 90: "Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531), born in Venice to Greek parents, taught philosophy at Padua from 1497, and became known as a translator and interpreter of Aristotle. In 1524, he published a collection of philosophical dialogues, written in an elaborate Latin; the first of these is entitled 'Trophonius, sive, De divinatione'."}}</ref><ref name=Parkinson>{{harvnb|Parkinson|2003|loc=p. 40: "Pomponazzi's Paduan colleague Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531) was the first professor to lecture on the Greek text of Aristotle. As a Venetian of Greek parentage, Leonico Tomeo inherited the mantle of Byzantine scholars such as Gaza and Argyropoulos along with that of Italian humanists like Poliziano and Barbaro."}}</ref><ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher>{{harvnb|Bietenholz|Deutscher|1995|loc=pp. 323–324: "Niccolò LEONICO TOMEO 1 February 1456–28 March 1531 Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (Leonicus Thomaeus) was born in Venice of Epirote Greek parentage and studied Greek in Florence under Demetrios *Chalcondyles. He had apparently been teaching at the University of Padua for some time when he was appointed its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle in 1497, since the Venetian senate's decree called him 'very popular and acceptable to the students'. Though elected to succeed Giorgio *Valla in the chair of Greek in Venice itself during 1504, he does not appear to have taken the post up seriously and was superseded by *Musurus in 1512. He returned to Padua as soon as the university reopened after the wars of the League of Cambrai, teaching there continuously until his death..."}}</ref> While in [[Florence, Italy|Florence]], he studied [[Greek language|Greek]] under the tutelage of [[Demetrios Chalkokondyles|Demetrios Chalcondyles]].<ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/> In 1497, the [[University of Padua]] appointed Thomaeus as its first official lecturer on the Greek text of [[Aristotle]].<ref name=Ossa-Richardson/><ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/> In 1504, he was elected to succeed Giorgio Valla as chair of Greek in Venice, but because Thomaeus failed to take the post seriously, he was succeeded in 1512 by [[Marcus Musurus]].<ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/> In 1524, Thomaeus published a collection of philosophical dialogues in [[Latin language|Latin]], the first of which was titled "Trophonius, sive, De divinatione".<ref name=Ossa-Richardson/> He was admired by scholars such as [[Erasmus]] for his philological capabilities.<ref name=Parkinson/> When the University of Padua was reopened after the [[War of the League of Cambrai|wars of the League of Cambrai]], Thomaeus taught at the university until his death on March 28, 1531.<ref name=Bietenholz-Deutscher/>