The Greatest Byzantine Greek Scholars of the Renaissance

The Greatest Byzantine Greek Scholars of the Renaissance

Scholars of the Renaissance, including the Greek academic Demetrios Chalkondyles (pictured far right). Credit: Domenico Ghirlandaio / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which literally means “rebirth”, was…