"Especially you, seem to have approached antiquity more closely than the other city states of Italy regarding your descent, language, and culture to such a degree, that you can easily discern a colony of the Romans [in Florence], if you take into account, among other things, the very name of your city, as it is in my opinion not so much derived from the river as it is from the sacred name of the City."
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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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