"I would contend that someone of Latin origin will find no other foster fathers, if the Greeks are excluded; after all, the Greek and Latin peoples could be considered to be one and the same, even though the former is older and the Latin younger, because it follows from the Greek. But surely the Greeks seem to have given the ripe fruits of physical and intellectual culture to all men and certainly to their Latin brothers. This alone is sufÂficient reason why they must be welcomed with general benevolence."
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Ianus Lascaris
1445 – 1535
Ianus Lascaris or Janus Lascaris (1445–1535) was a Greek scholar in the Renaissance. He was known for his transmission of Greek learning to the Latins after the Fall of Constantinople (1453).
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