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- Title
Greek epigrams and manuscripts of Damiano Guidotto of Venice.
- Authors
Murphy, David J.
- Abstract
Damiano Guidotto, copyist of Greek manuscripts composed two hitherto unpublished Greek epigrams to Homer, Greek dramatist and poet, as prefatory pieces in his Homer manuscript, Columbia MS Plimpton 3, which he copied around 1500. Despite their slight literary value, these epigrams amount to a noteworthy achievement. In his small composition one can see Damiano's reverence for the civilization of ancient Greece that he was discovering in books and his conviction that his city Venice in Italy had inherited the mantle of that civilization.
- Subjects
GREEK epigrams; MANUSCRIPTS; GUIDOTTO, Damiano; COPYISTS; CALLIGRAPHERS; GREEK civilization
- Publication
Renaissance Studies, 1998, Vol 12, Issue 4, p476
- ISSN
0269-1213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-4658.1998.tb00056.x