Abstract
Ianos Laskaris (ca. 1445–1534) was a prominent figure in the intellectual life of Italy and France in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was a humanist, a scholar, and a diplomat, who has contributed to the Italian Renaissance and French Humanism and the transmission of Greek learning to Western Europe. Laskaris is also known as a manuscript collector and a librarian, an editor, a publisher, a translator, and a teacher. He was a Byzantine émigré and a representative of the Byzantine tradition, worked for the revival of classical studies in the West, and was devoted to the cause of the liberation of Greek lands from the Ottoman Turks. Ianos has been rightfully characterized as “an ambassador of Hellenism.”
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Kakkoura, C. (2022). Laskaris, Ianos. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_144
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