The Erotemata are the first printed basic Greek

Greek language

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 grammar

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 in use in Western Europe, written by Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras

Manuel Chrysoloras was a pioneer in the introduction of Greek literature to Western Europe during the late middle ages....

 who was a pioneer is spreading Greek literature

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 in Western Europe

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Chrysoloras' Erotemata were first published almost certainly in 1471 in Venice

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 by Adam de Ambergau. It can be considered the first Greek book ever printed, since it bears a Greek title-page and the text contains large parts in Greek. It enjoyed immediate and considerable success in Italy, but also among later leading humanists, being studied by Thomas Linacre

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 at Oxford

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 and by Desiderius Erasmus

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 at Cambridge

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