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).   

Contents

List of Figures

Graecia transvolavit Alpes

Editor’s Note

Contributors



1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men

 Inmaculada Pérez Martín



2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budé’s Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540

 Luigi-Alberto Sanchi



3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé’s Collection of Greek Letters

 Gianmario Cattaneo



4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape

 Natasha Constantinidou



5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges

 Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy



6 Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century)

 Christian Gastgeber



7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania

 Iulian Mihai Damian



8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg

 Marianne Pade



9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon’s Greek Grammar

 Federica Ciccolella



10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century

 Tua Korhonen



11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden

 Johanna Akujärvi



12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia

 Ovanes Akopyan



Bibliography

Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials

Index of Personal Names