Gaza, Theodore
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GAZA, THEODORE ga z , ga , c.1398 c.1478, Greek scholar, b. Salonica. When the Turks attacked Constantinople, he went to Italy...scholars and humanists of the Renaissance. His patrons included the Este family, Pope Nicholas V, and Cardinal Bessarion . Gaza was responsible for spreading Greek learning from Ferrara, Rome, and Naples. His Greek grammar was printed by Aldus Manutius...