Personalities

Thomas Flanginis was a Greek tailor, a wealthy Corfiot lawyer and merchant who, with his bequest, in 1644, founded a higher educational school (Flanginian School). He was one of the great benefactors of the Greek community in Venice. He endowed needy Greek women and financed the establishment of a hospital for the treatment of Greeks.

A distinguished Byzantine scholar of the Renaissance, he was born in Chios in 1470. He produced the famous first edition of Plato's works (1513) and was responsible for the twelve, out of the first thirty, editions (editiones principes) that came out of the printing house of Aldo Manutius. His commentary work on classical singers, such as Aristophanes and Euripides, was also important. With his work he was one of the main bridge-builders between traditional Byzantine culture and the new intellectual currents of Europe.

He was a prominent political and military figure. In 1081 he and his brothers rebelled against Nicephorus III and ascended the throne at the urging of John Duke. His great activity is connected with the Galentine's Day, the period when he was called upon to confront the Normans of Robert of Giscard, and was forced to seek the help of the Venetians, granting them exclusive economic privileges. In addition, he signed an agreement with them for the free settlement of merchants in Basileus and their favourable tax treatment.

Scholar monk, a man of enlightened and insightful, he came from Monemvasia and received the monastic form in Crete. He was elected in 1573, chaplain of the Church of St. George. As a religious leader of the brotherhood and a diplomat, he organized the church, he gave prestige to the Brotherhood, sought to establish a community school, took an interest in the education of the girls in the community and established a convent for women.

Bishop of Philadelphia in the early 18th century, whose decisions caused upheaval in the Orthodox Church of Venice. By subverting the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, he succeeded in bringing into force earlier decrees of the Council of Ten concerning the submission of the church of St. George to the Latins, resulting in his excommunication by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Bishop of Philadelphia in the early 18th century, whose decisions caused upheaval in the Orthodox Church of Venice. By subverting the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, he succeeded in bringing into force earlier decrees of the Council of Ten concerning the submission of the church of St. George to the Latins, resulting in his excommunication by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Janos Laskaris was born in Constantinople in 1445 and died in Rome in 1534. He was one of the most important Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance, as well as one of the most important scholars of the Byzantine Empire, diplomat and ambassador. He served as ambassador of France in Venice and was a great. He was a great supporter of Greek letters. He inherited the mission of Vissarion the Trabzon to motivate the Westerners to a crusade for the reconquest of Constantinople from the Ottomans. His work and teachings were instrumental in the revival of classical studies in Europe.

One of the most amazing for their production of Renaissance codices

Famous Venetian painter, who had undertaken by decision of the Brotherhood, at the end of the 16th century, the supervision of the works of the painter Ioannis Kypriou.