Zacharias Calliergi

Zacharias Calliergi was a Greek Renaissance humanist and scholar. He was born in Crete but emigrated to Rome at a young age. In 1499 by helped to bring out the Etymologicum Magnum at Venice [John Addington Symonds, "Renaissance in Italy: The Revival of Learning", 1918, p.208] and in 1515 he set up a printing press where he published exclusively Greek volumes, among them the first Greek book printed in Rome, a book of humns by Pindar. He also instituted the "Gymnasium Caballini Montis" school where lectures were given, by among others, eminent fellow Cretan scholar Marcus Musurus and Janus Lascaris. [Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero," The Cambridge Modern History", 1907, p. 666] [William Dana Orcutt, Master Makers of the Book: Being a Consecutive Story of the Book, 1928, p.66]

Known works

*"The Hymns of Pindar"

References

ee also

*Greek scholars in the Renaissance