Marcus Antonius Antimachus, also written Mark Antony Antimaco or Marcantonio Antimaco (c. 1473 – 1552), was an Italian who mainly taught and translated Greek.
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| Born | c. 1473 |
| Died | 1552 |
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| Language | Greek, Neo-Latin |
Antimachus was born in Mantua. His father, who was also educated, sent him to Greece while he was young, where he spent five years studying Greek under a Spartan, John Mosco. He returned to Italy and opened a Greek language school in Mantua, which became well known. He later moved to Ferrara, where he ran a similar school, and where he died in 1552. In addition to teaching, he translated some Greek works, which were published in Basel in 1540, and wrote some Neo-Latin poetry.
References
edit- John Aikin and William Enfield, ed. (1799). "Antimaco, Mark Antony". General Biography. Vol. 1. p. 297.
- Diego Baldi, A Conrad Gesner in visita a Ferrara : un epigramma di Marco Antonio Antimaco, in "Il bibliotecario" 3 (2008), pp. 117–126