Thomas Flanginis

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Thomas Flanginis (Tommaso Flangini)

Thomas Flanginis
Born 1578
Corfu
Died 1648
Nationality Greek
Region Thomas Flanginis
Main interests Greek literature

Thomas Flanginis (Greek: Θωμάς Φλαγγίνης; 1578–1648) was a wealthy Greek[1][2][3] lawyer and merchant in Venice, who founded the Flanginian School, a Greek college where many teachers were trained.[4] His family were originally from the island of Corfu.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Biucchi, Edwina – Pilling, Simon – Collie, Keith (2002). Venice: an architectural guide. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8781-X. "Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek merchant and . in 1664 . a late entrant to the Venetian Republic's patriciate) were enclosed" 
  2. ↑ Goy, Richard John (1997). Venice: the city and its architecture. Phaidon. p. 235. ISBN 0-7148-3005-4. "Immediately adjacent again is the imposing Collegio Flangini...built from the legacy of Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek merchant whose family had been enrolled in the Venetian patriciate in 1664;" 
  3. ↑ Runciman, Steven (1986). The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 0-521-31310-4. "In 1626 a rich Venetian Greek, Thomas Flanginis, presented the colony with a large sum of money to be spent on education;" 
  4. ↑ Runciman, Steven (1986). The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 0-521-31310-4. 
  5. ↑ Politēs, Linos (1973). A history of modern Greek literature. Clarendon Press. p. 50. Retrieved 28 November 2010. 

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