Damilas, Demetrius Cretensis

Name:

Damilas, Demetrius Cretensis.

Biographical Details:

From Crete. Scribe active in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (in Milan from 1477); employed by the Vatican Library to write Greek manuscripts in 1506; also Greek type designer; see Carla Casetti Brach in DBI, 38 (1990), online, and David Speranzi, 'Prima di Aldo. Demetrio Damilas disegnatore di caratteri', in Manuciana Tergestina et Veronensia, ed. Francesco Donadi, Stefano Pagliaroli, and Andrea Tessier, Trieste, EUT, 2015, pp. 143-161.

Categorisation:

Century: 15th century AD to 16th century AD Geographical area: Italy Period: Humanist Characterisation: no characterisation/lay

Works:

• author
  1. til00065000 Lascaris, Constantinus Erotemata [Greek and Latin].

Gender:

Male

Author Id:

1686