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Angelo Vergecio ( el, Άγγελος Βεργέκιος, french: Ange Vergèce; 1505–1569) was a
« Ange Vergèce », ''Bibliographie hellénique''. Paris : 1885. t. I, pp. cxxv-cxxxvi
* Pierre de Nolhac. ''Ronsard et l'humanisme''. Paris : Champion, 1921, p. 39. * Henri Omont.
Catalogues des manuscrits grecs de Fontainebleau sous François Ier et Henri II
'. Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1889. 4°, XXXIX-466 p. * Henri Omont. « Procès d’Ange Vergèce au Châtelet et au Parlement de Paris (1561) », ''Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes'' 77 (1916) pp. 516–520. * Glenn Peers, « Forging Byzantine animals : Manuel Philes in Renaissance France », ''Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici'' 49 (2012), pp. 79–103. * Glenn Peers. « Thinking with Animals: Byzantine natural history in sixteenth-century France », ''Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance'' 68 (2006), pp. 457–484. * Glenn Peers. « A Cretan in Paris : Angelos Vergekios and Greek natural history in the French Renaissance », ''Pepragmena Th’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou. Elounta, 1-6 Oktovriou 2001. Tomos B2: Architetektonike, Istoria tes Technes, Nomismatike, Topographia kai Topiographia, Diepistemonikes Symvoles'', Herakleion, 2004 (2006), . {{DEFAULTSORT:Vergecio, Angelo 1505 births 1569 deaths Greek Renaissance humanists Copyists 16th-century Greek people Greek expatriates in France People from Crete
Angelo Vergecio ( el, Άγγελος Βεργέκιος, french: Ange Vergèce; 1505–1569) was a Greek
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copyist from Crete
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active in Venice
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and France
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. He became a royal scribe for Francis I of France
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and his successors, was responsible for copying over fifty Greek manuscripts, and played a role in the dissemination of Greek among the humanist circles in France. His handwriting formed the basis of the ''grecs du roi
''Les grecs du roi'' (lit. "the king's greeks") are a celebrated and influential Greek typeface cut by the French punchcutter Claude Garamond between 1541 and 1550. Arthur Tilley calls the books printed from them "among the most finished specim ...
'' typeface designed by Claude Garamond
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.
Bibliography
* Alphonse Dain. « La fille d’Ange Vergèce », ''Humanisme et Renaissance'' 1 (1934) p. 133-144. * Alphonse Dain. « Commerce et copie de manuscrits grecs », ''Humanisme et Renaissance'' 4 (1937) p. 395-410. * Charles Delattre. ''Nommer le monde : origine des noms de fleuves, de montagnes et de ce qui s'y trouve''. Villeneuve-d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2011. * Ernst Gamillscheg, Dieter Harlfinger and Herbert Hunger (dir.) ''Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600'', Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3-1, Vienna : Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981. * Philip Hofer et G. W. Cottrell Jr. « Angelos Vergecios and the bestiary of Manuel Philes », ''Harvard Library Bulletin'' 8 (1954) . * Marie-Pierre Laffitte. ''Reliures royales du Département des Manuscrits (1515-1559)''. Paris : BNF, 2001. * Marie-Pierre Laffitte. « Manuscrits de la famille Vergèce en reliures à médaillons peints (1554-1569) », ''Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France'' 12 (2002), p. 25-31. * Émile Legrand« Ange Vergèce », ''Bibliographie hellénique''. Paris : 1885. t. I, pp. cxxv-cxxxvi
* Pierre de Nolhac. ''Ronsard et l'humanisme''. Paris : Champion, 1921, p. 39. * Henri Omont.
Catalogues des manuscrits grecs de Fontainebleau sous François Ier et Henri II
'. Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1889. 4°, XXXIX-466 p. * Henri Omont. « Procès d’Ange Vergèce au Châtelet et au Parlement de Paris (1561) », ''Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes'' 77 (1916) pp. 516–520. * Glenn Peers, « Forging Byzantine animals : Manuel Philes in Renaissance France », ''Rivista di studi bizantini e neoellenici'' 49 (2012), pp. 79–103. * Glenn Peers. « Thinking with Animals: Byzantine natural history in sixteenth-century France », ''Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance'' 68 (2006), pp. 457–484. * Glenn Peers. « A Cretan in Paris : Angelos Vergekios and Greek natural history in the French Renaissance », ''Pepragmena Th’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou. Elounta, 1-6 Oktovriou 2001. Tomos B2: Architetektonike, Istoria tes Technes, Nomismatike, Topographia kai Topiographia, Diepistemonikes Symvoles'', Herakleion, 2004 (2006), . {{DEFAULTSORT:Vergecio, Angelo 1505 births 1569 deaths Greek Renaissance humanists Copyists 16th-century Greek people Greek expatriates in France People from Crete