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501  9,19|         southern Italy and Sicily, the Greek population of which gradually
502  9,19|             the seventh century a huge Greek emigration to Sicily and
503  9,19|               century a vast number of Greek monks came to Italy, escaping
504  9,19|              ninth and tenth centuries Greek refugees from Sicily, then
505  9,19|    continuation and inheritance of the Greek culture of Sicily.”[460]
506  9,19|               formed densely populated Greek ethnic islands as well as
507  9,19|         founding of the most important Greek monasteries in southern
508  9,19|               literary activity.”[461] Greek medieval southern Italy
509  9,19|          clergy and people were purely Greek.”[463] An old French chronicler
510  9,19|             Calabria spoke nothing but Greek.[464] In the fourteenth
511  9,19|             thoroughly acquainted with Greek literature … he determined
512  9,19|        technical acquaintance with the Greek language and the beginnings
513  9,19|         language and the beginnings of Greek literature; they had a nearer
514  9,19|     Chrysoloras; the latter taught him Greek, and Guarino began to study
515  9,19|             and Guarino began to study Greek authors. Chrysoloras, by
516  9,19|         auditors his vast knowledge of Greek literature. His writings
517  9,19|              of theological treatises, Greek grammar, translations (for
518  9,19|        sometimes called “the prince of Greek eloquence and philosophy.”[
519  9,19|             Chrysoloras is a veritable Greek; he is from Byzantium; he
520  9,19|                 he is erudite; besides Greek he knows Latin; he is grave,
521  9,19|              master. This is the first Greek professor who renewed the
522  9,19|                to study thoroughly the Greek poets, orators, and philosophers.
523  9,19|              the great majority of the Greek population, the union could
524  9,19|         languages called him “the best Greek of the Latins and the best
525  9,19|           example of the fusion of the Greek genius with the Latin genius,
526  9,19|              between two ages. He is a Greek who becomes Latin, ... a
527  9,19|        implanting the knowledge of the Greek language and literature
528  9,19|               a vast number of earlier Greek manuscripts, which contained
529  9,19|            works of the Fathers of the Greek Church.~ Italian humanists,
530  9,19|        movement for the acquisition of Greek books. For this purpose
531  9,19|             gone to Byzantium to learn Greek wisdom returned to Italy
532  9,19|             returned to Italy bringing Greek books. The first of these
533  9,19|               Giovanni Aurispa did for Greek literature: he went to Byzantium