Zacharias Calliergi

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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[1] 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.[2][3]

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  1. ^ John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The Revival of Learning, 1918, p.208
  2. ^ Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, The Cambridge Modern History, 1907, p. 666
  3. ^ William Dana Orcutt, Master Makers of the Book: Being a Consecutive Story of the Book, 1928, p.66

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