Marcus Musurus

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Marcus Musurus (Μάρκος Μουσούρος) (c. 1470- 1517), Greek scholar, was born at Rethymno, Crete. At an early age he became a pupil of John Lascaris at Venice.

In 1505, Musurus was made professor of Greek language at the University of Padua. But when the university was closed in 1509 during the War of the League of Cambrai, he returned to Venice where he filled a similar post .

In 1516, Musurus was summoned to Rome by Pope Leo X, who appointed him archbishop of Monemvasia (Malvasia) in the Peloponnese, but he died before he left the Italian peninsula.

Since 1493 Musurus had been associated with the famous printer Aldus 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 classics were brought out under Musurus' supervision, and he is credited with the first editions of the scholia of Aristophanes (1498), Athenaeus (1514), Hesychius of Alexandria (1514), and Pausanias the geographer (1516).

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