When Greece Flew across the Alps

Federica Ciccolella is Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University. She has published on Byzantine poetry and metrics, late antique epistolography, and the study of Greek in the Renaissance (Donati Graeci, Brill, 2008; Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance, coedited with Luigi Silvano, Brill, 2017).

• ContentsList of FiguresGraecia transvolavit AlpesEditor’s NoteContributors1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and MenInmaculada Pérez Martín2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budé’s Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540Luigi-Alberto Sanchi3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé’s Collection of Greek LettersGianmario Cattaneo4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing LandscapeNatasha Constantinidou5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance BrugesHan Lamers and Raf Van Rooy6 Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century)Christian Gastgeber7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in TransylvaniaIulian Mihai Damian8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in WittenbergMarianne Pade9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon’s Greek GrammarFederica Ciccolella10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth CenturyTua Korhonen11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in SwedenJohanna Akujärvi12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern RussiaOvanes AkopyanBibliographyIndex of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival MaterialsIndex of Personal Names

"This volume will serve as an important sourcebook for anyone looking at the status of Greek studies during the early modern period and within particular areas. It identifies and provides useful information on important humanists during the period, such as Guillaume Budé and Philipp Melanchthon, among others, and documents important Greek manuscripts and printed texts. The essays additionally offer insight into educational practices during the early modern period and how Greek studies were incorporated into humanist education. The volume also adds important insight into the spread of humanism through Europe and the ways that humanists shared knowledge. This collection is an important achievement that should be on the shelves of students and scholars of the European Renaissance." - Jacob Blevins, Sam Houston State University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 1474–1475