patron · commissioner

Pope Nicholas V

1397–1455

The founding patron of the Vatican Library, who paid humanists to bring the Greek historians into Latin.

Crossings

c. 1448–1452 History of the Peloponnesian War , Greek Latin · commissioner · Rome attested
c. 1452–1457 The Histories , Greek Latin · commissioner · Rome attested

Sources

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