Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus Explained

Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus
Birth Date:	1 February 1456
Death Date:	28 March 1531 (aged 75)
Nationality:	Venetian
Occupation:	Scholar, professor of philosophy at the University of Padua
Notable Works:	Opuscula

Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (Italian: Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, Albanian: Nikollë Leonik Tomeu, Greek, Modern (1453-);: Νικόλαος Λεόνικος Θωμεύς; 1456–1531) was a Venetian scholar and professor of philosophy as well as of Greek and Latin at the University of Padua.

Biography

Thomaeus was born in Venice, Italy on February 1, 1456, to an Albanian^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]} or Greek family from Epirus or Albania.^[14] While in Florence, he studied Greek philosophy and literature under the tutelage of Demetrios Chalcondyles. In 1497, the University of Padua appointed Thomaeus as its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle. In 1504, he was elected to succeed Giorgio Valla as chair of Greek in Venice, but because Thomaeus failed to take the post seriously, he was succeeded in 1512 by Marcus Musurus. In 1524, Thomaeus published a collection of philosophical dialogues in Latin, the first of which was titled Trophonius, sive, De divinatione. He was admired by scholars such as Desiderius Erasmus for his philological capabilities. When the University of Padua was reopened after the wars of the League of Cambrai, Thomaeus taught at the university until his death on March 28, 1531.

Works

• Aristotelis Parva quae vocant Naturalia, Bernardino Vitali, Venice 1523.
• Trophonius, sive, De divinatione, 1524.
• Bembo sive de immortalitate animae, 1524.
• Opuscula. Ex Venetiis, Bernardino Vitali, Venice 1525.
• Conversio in Latinum atque explanatio primi libri Aristotelis de partibus animalium… nunc primum ex authoris archetypo in lucem aeditus. G. Farri, Venice 1540.

See also

• Byzantine scholars in Renaissance

Sources

• Book: Bietenholz. Peter G.. Deutscher. Thomas Brian. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (Volumes 1–3). 1985. 1995. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 978-0-80-208577-1.
• Book: Copenhaver. Brian P.. Schmidt. Charles B.. Renaissance Philosophy. 1992. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-219203-5. registration.
• Geanakoplos. Deno J.. The Career of the Little-known Renaissance Greek Scholar Nicholas Leonicus Tomaeus and the Ascendancy of Greco-Byzantine Aristotelianism at Padua University (1497). Byzantina. 13. 1. 1985. 355–372.
• Book: Ossa-Richardson, Anthony. The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought. 2013. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press. 978-1-40-084659-7.
• Book: Parkinson, G.H.R.. Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism. 1993. 2003. London and New York. Routledge. 978-0-41-505378-5.
• Book: Runciman, Steven. The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence. 1985. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 0-521-31310-4.

Further reading

• De Bellis. Daniela. Niccolò Leonico Tomeo interprete di Aristotele naturalista. Physis: Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza. 17. 1–2. 1975. 71–93. Italian.
• De Bellis. Daniela. La vita e l'ambiente di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo. Quaderni per la Storia dell'Universita di Padova. 13. 1980. 37–75. Italian.
• De Bellis. Daniela. I veicoli dell'anima nell'analisi di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo. Annali dell'Istituto di Filosofia, Universita di Firenze. 3. 1981. 1–21. Italian.
• Serena. A.. Niccolò Leonico Tomeo. Appunti Letterari. 1903. Rome. 5–32. Italian.

Notes and References

1. Book: Del Negro . Piero . L'Università di Padova: otto secoli di storia . 2001. Signum. ...per poi trasferirsi a Firenze e quindi a Milano, ed ebbe fra i suoi allievi Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456-1531), di padre albanese, che per primo avrebbe letto a Padova la filosofia naturale di Aristotele sul testo greco . 199.
2. Siraisi. Nancy G.. 1985. Antonino Poppi, ed. Scienza e filosofia all'Università di Padova nel Quattrocento. (Centro per la storia dell'Università di Padova.) Padua-Trieste: Edizioni Lint, 1983. 254 pp.. Leonico Tomeo, d'origine albanese, detto anche Epirota, dal monte Tomarus, scrisse anche i Dialoghi decem (Venetiis 1524), composti « Academicorum more » di Cicerone, cioè dialoghi di contenuto filosofico e scientifico, in cui.... Renaissance Quarterly. 38. 2. 309–312. 10.2307/2861668. 2861668. 163214637 . 0034-4338.
3. The Solar Mystery. An Inquiry Into the Temporal and the Eternal Background of the Rise of Modern Civilization, Oslo 2003. pg 207. quote " with the person of Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, that renowned Hellenist who had been constituted professor in Padua. ... Tomeo, although naturalized in Venice, was Albanese by birth ..."
4. Book: Favaretto. Irene. Arte antica e cultura antiquaria nelle collezioni venete al tempo della Serenissima. 2002. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider. Roma. 8882652238. Riv. e corr.. 100. La collezione di Niccolò Leonico Tomeo Figura di rilievo nei circoli culturali padovani degli anni a cavallo tra XV e XVI secolo, Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, figlio di un rifugiato albanese, nacque a Venezia nel 1456..
5. Book: Humfrey, P.. The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Companions to the History of Art. 2008. 978-0-521-72855-3. 15 April 2019. 168. Just as the Bellini maintained long - term relations with more than one generation of the noble Bembo they did likewise with the latter's plebeian friends, the learned Tomeo, a family of Albanian immigrants renowned for their study of Greek philosophy . The best known member was Niccolò Leonico who was heavily involved with the visual arts and whose studiolo style collection was viewed by Marcantonio Michiel in Padua ..
6. Book: Dr Evelyn Karet. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy. The collection of Albanian philosopher and Greek scholar Niccolò Leonico Tomeo.... 28 March 2014. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-0-7546-6571-7. 122.
7. Book: Elogii degli uomini illustri nelle lettere di M. Paulo Giouio. Tradotti da M. Ludovico Domenichi . 1560 . Paolo Giovio . 200 . LEONICO Tomeo figliulo di un Albanese naca que in Vinegia,....
8. Book: Cronica di M. Marco Guazzo, ne la quale ordinatamente contiensi l'essere de gli huomini illustri antiqui e moderni, le cose e i fatti di eterna memoria degni occorsi dal principio del mondo sino a questi nostri tempi . 1553 . Marco Guazzo . 373 . Nascue in Venetia di padre Albanese Leonico Tomeo,....
9. Book: Della letteratura veneziana . Marco Foscarini . 400 . 978-88-271-1621-0 . Egli nasque in Venezia di padre Albanese,....
10. Book: The travels of Theodore Ducas, in various countries in Europe, at the revival of letters and art, Volume 90 . 1822 . Charles Mills . 276 . He was a Venetian by birth, and an Albanian by extraction..
11. Book: The Book of the Courtier . 29 April 2004 . Baldesar Castiglione . 177 . 978-0-14-191651-4 . Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1452–1531) was born in Venice of an Albanian father,....
12. Book: Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions : Classed According to Their Various Talents and Pursuits : and Arranged in Chronological Order : Showing the Progress of Men and Things, from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time : to which is Added an Alphabetical Index for Reference, Volume 5 . 1826 . John Platts . 268 . NICOLO LEONICO TOMEO, an eminent man of letters, born at Venice, of an Albanian family, in 1456..
13. Book: The Greek Anthology in Italy to the Year 1800 . 1935 . James Hutton . 154 . Leonico was born in Venice of Albanian parentage..
14. Book: Holland, Nicholas. Platonism: Ficino to Foucault. 2020. Brill. 978-90-04-35893-5. Rees. Valery. 129. Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's Accounts of Veridical Dreams and the Idola of Synesius. Corrias. Anna. Crasta. Francesca M.. Follesa. Laura. Giglioni. Guido.