Jacobus Angelus in the context of Classical scholar

Jacobus Angelus in the context of Classical scholar

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Giacomo or Jacopo d'Angelo, also surnamed De Scarperia, (c. 1360–1411), better known by his Latin name Jacobus Angelus, was an Italian classical scholar, humanist, and translator of ancient Greek texts during the Renaissance. Named for the village of Scarperia in the Mugello in the Republic of Florence, he traveled to Venice where the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos' ambassador Manuel Chrysoloras (c. 1350–1415) was teaching Greek, the first scholar to hold such course in medieval Italy.

Da Scarperia returned with Chrysoloras to Constantinople—the first Florentine to do so—along with Guarino da Verona. In the Byzantine Empire, he studied Greek literature and history under Demetrios Kydones. Coluccio Salutati wrote to urge Da Scarperia to search the libraries there, particularly for editions of Homer and Greek dictionaries, with the result that he translated Ptolemy's Geography into Latin in 1406. He first dedicated it to Pope Gregory IX and then to Pope Alexander V in 1409. He also brought new texts of Homer, Aristotle, and Plato to the attention of Western scholars of philosophy and ancient Greek literature.

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Jacobus Angelus in the context of Cape Delgado

Cape Delgado (Portuguese: Cabo Delgado) is a coastal promontory south of Mozambique's border with Tanzania. It is the arc-shaped delta of the Rovuma River and was created from sediment deposited by the Rovuma as it empties into the Indian Ocean. It is sometimes identified with Prasum, the southernmost point of Africa known to the Roman geographers Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy. In Ptolemy's Geography, it marked the point where Africa turned eastward along a great unknown shore to meet southeast Asia and enclose the Indian Ocean. Medieval Islamic cartographers dispensed with the idea at least as early as the 9th-century al-Khwārizmī but the conception returned to Europe following Jacobus Angelus's c. 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's restored Ptolemaic text and was not (openly) dispensed with until after Bartholomew Dias's successful circumnavigation of Africa in 1488.

Cape Delgado gives its name to Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique.

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Claudius Ptolemy → Ptolemy's Geography → Manuel Chrysoloras → Byzantine Greek → Medieval Italy → Paolo Uccello → Louvre Museum → Latinization of names → Italians → Classical scholar → Renaissance humanist → Translator → Italian Renaissance → Scarperia → Mugello region → Republic of Florence → Republic of Venice → Byzantine emperor → Manuel II Palaiologos → Constantinople → Guarino da Verona → Byzantine Empire → Greek literature → History of Greece → Demetrios Kydones → Coluccio Salutati → Homer → Pope Gregory IX → Pope Alexander V → Aristotle → Plato → Western philosophy → Ancient Greek literature →