translator · scholar

Leontius Pilatus Leontius Pilatus

d. c. 1366

Calabrian Greek scholar whom Boccaccio housed in Florence so that Homer could be turned into Latin, the first complete crossing of the epics into a Western tongue in the medieval West.

Crossings

c. 1360–1362 Iliad , Greek Latin · translator · Florence attested
c. 1360–1362 Odyssey , Greek Latin · translator · Florence attested

Sources

N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.