"Philhellene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pico della Mirandola, the phoenix of the Renaissance, came to Ferrara to sit at the feet of this revered teacher. Here Aldo acquired the passion for Greek literature which made him inscribe the word Philhellene after his name on his first printed books. Here, in his own turn, he lectured on Greek and Latin authors to the cultured youth of Ercole's court, and here he would have set up his printing-press, under his ...
— Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 • Julia Mary Cartwright |
