Niccolò Leonico Tomeo

Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (latinizzato come Leonicus Thomaeus; in greco Νικόλαος Λεόνικος Θωμεύς; in albanese Νikolla Thomai; Venezia, 1º febbraio 1456 – Padova, 28 marzo 1531) è stato un accademico e docente veneziano, originario dell'Albania, professore di filosofia all'Università di Padova.

Tomeo succedette a Demetrio Calcondila divenendo il secondo professore ad avere una cattedra di greco a Padova.^[1]^[2]

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Tomeo nacque a Venezia nel febbraio 1456 da una famiglia epirota originaria di Durazzo, all'epoca possedimento della Repubblica di Venezia).^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Fu inviato a Firenze, dove studiò filosofia e letteratura greca sotto la tutela del conterraneo Demetrio Calcondila.^[3]^[6] Nel 1497 l'Università di Padova nominò Tomeo come suo primo docente ufficiale sul testo greco di Aristotele.^[2]^[4]^[6] Nel 1504 venne eletto come successore di Giorgio Valla per la cattedra di greco a Venezia, ma poiché Tomeo non prese seriamente l'incarico, gli succedette nel 1512 Marco Musuro.^[6] Nel 1524 Tomeo pubblicò una raccolta di dialoghi filosofici in latino, il primo dei quali era intitolato Trophonius, sive De divinatione.^[4] Fu ammirato da studiosi come Erasmo per le sue capacità filologiche.^[5] Quando l'Università di Padova venne riaperta dopo la guerra della Lega di Cambrai, Tomeo vi insegnò fino alla sua morte, avvenuta il 28 marzo 1531.^[6]

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Aristotelis Parva quae vocant Naturalia, Bernardino Vitali, Venezia 1523.
Trophonius, sive, De divinatione, 1524.
Bembo sive de immortalitate animae, 1524.
Opuscula. Ex Venetiis, Bernardino Vitali, Venezia 1525.
- Edizione in linea: Nicolò Leonico Tomeo, Opuscula, Ex Venetiis, Bernardino Vitali, 1525. URL consultato il 18 giugno 2015.
Conversio in Latinum atque explanatio primi libri Aristotelis de partibus animalium… nunc primum ex authoris archetypo in lucem aeditus. G. Farri, Venezia 1540.

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^ Runciman 1985, p. 212: "The University of Padua was one of the first to encourage the study of Greek; and Greeks who could lecture on Greek texts were especially welcome. A Chair of Greek was founded there in 1463 and given to the Athenian Demetrius Chalcondylas. One of his successors, Nicholas Laonicus Thomaeus, an Epirot by birth, gave in 1497 a course of lectures on Aristotle, using only the Greek text and a few Alexandrian commentaries."
^ ^a ^b Copenhaver e Schmidt 1992, p. 104: "A few years later, cracks in the fortress of Latin Aristotelianism at Padua encouraged the hiring of Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, an Italian-born Greek, to lecture on the Greek Aristotle."
^ ^a ^b Geanakoplos 1985, p. 358: "Born in Venice of Greek parents (wrongly termed Albania by some scholars), Tomaeus as a youth was sent to study in Florence, where at its stadium he read Greek literature and philosophy with his famed compatriot, Demetrius Chalcondyles."
^ ^a ^b ^c Ossa-Richardson 2013, p. 90: "Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531), born in Venice to Greek parents, taught philosophy at Padua from 1497, and became known as a translator and interpreter of Aristotle. In 1524, he published a collection of philosophical dialogues, written in an elaborate Latin; the first of these is entitled 'Trophonius, sive, De divinatione'."
^ ^a ^b Parkinson 2003, p. 40: "Pomponazzi's Paduan colleague Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531) was the first professor to lecture on the Greek text of Aristotle. As a Venetian of Greek parentage, Leonico Tomeo inherited the mantle of Byzantine scholars such as Gaza and Argyropoulos along with that of Italian humanists like Poliziano and Barbaro."
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Bietenholz e Deutscher 1995, pp. 323–324: "Niccolò LEONICO TOMEO 1 February 1456–28 March 1531 Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (Leonicus Thomaeus) was born in Venice of Albanian parentage (From DURRES, Albania) and studied Greek in Florence under Demetrios *Chalcondyles. He had apparently been teaching at the University of Padua for some time when he was appointed its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle in 1497, since the Venetian senate's decree called him 'very popular and acceptable to the students'. Though elected to succeed Giorgio *Valla in the chair of Greek in Venice itself during 1504, he does not appear to have taken the post up seriously and was superseded by *Musurus in 1512. He returned to Padua as soon as the university reopened after the wars of the League of Cambrai, teaching there continuously until his death..."

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Bietenholz, Peter G. and Thomas Brian Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (Volumes 1–3), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1995 [1985], ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
Copenhaver, Brian P. and Charles B. Schmidt, Renaissance Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-19-219203-5.
Geanakoplos, Deno J., The Career of the Little-known Renaissance Greek Scholar Nicholas Leonicus Tomaeus and the Ascendancy of Greco-Byzantine Aristotelianism at Padua University (1497), in Byzantina, vol. 13, n. 1, 1985, pp. 355–372.
Ossa-Richardson, Anthony, The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4008-4659-7.
Parkinson, G.H.R., Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism, London and New York, Routledge, 2003 [1993], ISBN 978-0-415-05378-5.
Runciman, Steven, The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-521-31310-4.

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De Bellis, Daniela, Niccolò Leonico Tomeo interprete di Aristotele naturalista, in Physis: Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza, vol. 17, 1–2, 1975, pp. 71-93.
De Bellis, Daniela, La vita e l'ambiente di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, in Quaderni per la storia dell'Universita di Padova, vol. 13, 1980, pp. 37-75.
De Bellis, Daniela, I veicoli dell'anima nell'analisi di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo, in Annali dell'Istituto di filosofia, Universita di Firenze, vol. 3, 1981, pp. 1-21.
Serena, A., Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, in Appunti Letterari, Rome, 1903, pp. 5-32.

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Giuseppe Pavanello, LEONICO TOMEO, Nicolò, in Enciclopedia Italiana, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1933.
Emilio Russo, LEONICO TOMEO, Niccolò, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 64, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2005.
Opere di Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
(EN) Opere di Niccolò Leonico Tomeo / Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (altra versione), su Open Library, Internet Archive.

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[1] Runciman 1985, p. 212: "The University of Padua was one of the first to encourage the study of Greek; and Greeks who could lecture on Greek texts were especially welcome. A Chair of Greek was founded there in 1463 and given to the Athenian Demetrius Chalcondylas. One of his successors, Nicholas Laonicus Thomaeus, an Epirot by birth, gave in 1497 a course of lectures on Aristotle, using only the Greek text and a few Alexandrian commentaries."

[Copenhaver-Schmidt-2] Copenhaver e Schmidt 1992, p. 104: "A few years later, cracks in the fortress of Latin Aristotelianism at Padua encouraged the hiring of Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, an Italian-born Greek, to lecture on the Greek Aristotle."

[Geanakoplos358-3] Geanakoplos 1985, p. 358: "Born in Venice of Greek parents (wrongly termed Albania by some scholars), Tomaeus as a youth was sent to study in Florence, where at its stadium he read Greek literature and philosophy with his famed compatriot, Demetrius Chalcondyles."

[Ossa-Richardson-4] Ossa-Richardson 2013, p. 90: "Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531), born in Venice to Greek parents, taught philosophy at Padua from 1497, and became known as a translator and interpreter of Aristotle. In 1524, he published a collection of philosophical dialogues, written in an elaborate Latin; the first of these is entitled 'Trophonius, sive, De divinatione'."

[Parkinson-5] Parkinson 2003, p. 40: "Pomponazzi's Paduan colleague Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (1456–1531) was the first professor to lecture on the Greek text of Aristotle. As a Venetian of Greek parentage, Leonico Tomeo inherited the mantle of Byzantine scholars such as Gaza and Argyropoulos along with that of Italian humanists like Poliziano and Barbaro."

[Bietenholz-Deutscher-6] Bietenholz e Deutscher 1995, pp. 323–324: "Niccolò LEONICO TOMEO 1 February 1456–28 March 1531 Niccolò Leonico Tomeo (Leonicus Thomaeus) was born in Venice of Albanian parentage (From DURRES, Albania) and studied Greek in Florence under Demetrios *Chalcondyles. He had apparently been teaching at the University of Padua for some time when he was appointed its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle in 1497, since the Venetian senate's decree called him 'very popular and acceptable to the students'. Though elected to succeed Giorgio *Valla in the chair of Greek in Venice itself during 1504, he does not appear to have taken the post up seriously and was superseded by *Musurus in 1512. He returned to Padua as soon as the university reopened after the wars of the League of Cambrai, teaching there continuously until his death..."

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