[455] Ranke, Päpste, i. 486 sqq. Comp. the end of this part of our work.
[456] Tommaso Gar, Relazioni della Corte di Roma, i. pp. 338, 379.
[457] George of Trebizond, teacher of rhetoric at Venice, with a salary of 150 ducats a year (see Malipiero, Arch. Stor. vii. ii. p. 653). For the Greek chair at Perugia, see Arch. Stor. xvi. ii. p. 19 of the Introduction. In the case of Rimini, there is some doubt whether Greek was taught or not. Comp. Anecd. Litt. ii. p. 300. At Bologna, the centre of juristic studies, Aurispa had but little success. Details on the subject in Malagola.
[458] Exhaustive information on the subject in the admirable work of A. F. Didot, Alde Manuce et l’Héllenisme à Venise, Paris, 1875.
[459] For what follows see A. de Gubernatis, Matériaux pour servir à l’Histoire des Études Orientales en Italie, Paris, Florence, &c., 1876. Additions by Soave in the Bolletino Italiano degli Studi Orientali, i. 178 sqq. More precise details below.
[460] See below.
[461] See Commentario della Vita di Messer Gianozzo Manetti, scritto da Vespasiano Bisticci, Torino, 1862, esp. pp. 11, 44, 91 sqq.
[462] Vesp. Fior. p. 320. A. Trav. Epist. lib. xi. 16.
[463] Platina, Vita Sixti IV. p. 332.
[464] Benedictus Faleus, De Origine Hebraicarum Græcarum Latinarumque Literarum, Naples, 1520.