Metochi Study Centre, Limonos Monastery, Kalloni, Lesbos
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
16-19 May 2010
The collections of epigrams known as the Greek anthology (the Planudean and later Palatine anthologies) were diffused in Italy by the late Quattrocento, although knowledge of the epigrams can be traced to the previous century. From the 1494 edition of Janus Lascaris the epigrams had a European-wide success, constituting a major object of imitatio, with numerous renderings in (...)