ABSTRACT
Federica Ciccolella
De utroque fonte bibere: Latin in the teaching of Greek grammar during the Renaissance
The Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras, who taught Greek at the Studium Florentinum between 1397 and 1400, produced for his Western pupils an elementary grammar entitled Erotemata. Although being the first “Greek grammar for foreigners,” Erotemata was entirely in Greek, like traditional Byzantine grammars. Similarly, Ianua, the grammar used to learn the rudiments of Latin during the Middle Ages, was written in the target language instead of the languages that both teachers and pupils used every day. However, Renaissance pedagogy introduced several significant changes in the approach to and teaching of the classical languages. Such changes gradually affected the teaching of Greek also. This article will attempt to trace a history of the study of Greek grammar by considering grammars and other tools produced from the reintroduction of Greek in the West to the sixteenth century.
