Johannes Crastonis (Crastonus; Crastone) was an Italian renaissance humanist and scholar. Crastonus was probably born in Castel San Giovanni close to Piacenza. He was a member of the

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. He studied in

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but migrated to

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(near

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) in

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. There he published a Greek-

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dictionary about 1480. In Milan, together with Bonus Accursius, he edited various works to facilitate the learning of Greek. His collaboration with Bonus Accursius started no later than 1478. Among these works were a bi-lingual Greek and Latin edition of the Psalms, dedicated to Ludovico Donà, published on 21 September 1481. This was the first printed version of the Greek Psalms. While at Milan, he was friends with

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Francesco Filelfo Francesco Filelfo ( la, Franciscus Philelphus; 25 July 1398 – 31 July 1481) was an Italian Renaissance humanist. Biography Filelfo was born at Tolentino, in the March of Ancona. He is believed to be a third cousin of Leonardo da Vinci. At th ...

Giorgio Merula Georgius Merula (c. 1430 – 1494) was an Italian humanist and classical scholar. Life Merula was born in Alessandria in Piedmont. The greater part of his life was spent in Venice and Milan, where he held a professorship and continued to te ...

and Iacopo Antiquari. His ''Vocabulista'', a Greek-Latin dictionary, was first printed probably in Milan and then re-printed twice before 1500 by Dionysius Bertochus. A translation of Constantine Lascaris's ''Erotemata'' was published on 29 September 1480, which was reprinted in 1489. Crastonus died after 1497, as is clear from a reference made to him in that year.Giorgio Galbiati, reface in Terentianus Maurus, ''De litteris, syllabis et metris Horatii'', Milan, Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 1497, sig. a iii r

Known works

*''Lexicon graeco-latinum'', printed not after 28 March 1478 *''Lexicon latino-graecum'' or ''Vocabulista''; no place ut probably Milanor date; preface by Bonus Accursius * '' ilingual edition of the Psalms', Milan, Bonus Accursius, 1481

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