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This dissertation offers a study and a critical edition of the Greek Donatus or Pyle. The Greek Donatus is an anonymous Greek translation of the so-called Donatus or lanua, a grammar book used during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in learning elementary Latin. The eleven manuscripts which have transmitted it reveal that at least three different versions ofPyle were circulating in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. All of them are still unpublished. The first version, Pyle a, transmitted by eight manuscripts, is the object ofthe present study. Attributed to the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes (ca. 1255-1305), Pyle a is actually a word-for-word translation of Ianua, probably, it was originally written between the lines of the Latin text, for the benefit of Greeks who wanted to learn Latin by themselves. Between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century, the Greek version became an independent grammar, used by Westerners to leam Greek. The evidence offered by manuscripts points to a bilingual environment, such as Crete or Venice, as the place of origin of Pyle a. Thus, the Greek Donatus, in spite of its flaws in the treatment of Greek grammar, represents a tradition of Gree

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Author

Federica Ciccolella

Publisher

Columbia University

Published

2004

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History