末代拜占廷知识分子对文艺复兴运动的影响

Last Byzantine Intellectuals' Influence on Italian Renaissance

意大利文艺复兴运动深受拜占廷文化的影响,由于拜占廷知识分子始终热衷于古典希腊文化,因此其继承和保存的古希腊文化遗产受到文艺复兴运动人文主义者的青睐。许多拜占廷末代王朝的学者成为这些新文化运动领军者的老师,不仅向他们传授希腊语言文学知识,而且激发起他们对以希腊语言文学为核心的古典学术的热爱,有力地推动了意大利人文主义者在思想理论上接受拜占廷人传承的柏拉图主义。拜占廷知识分子还通过大量拜占廷知识界保存下来的古代珍贵文献,为新文化运动输送了急需的文化素材,使得拜占廷文化成为文艺复兴运动重要的文化来源。

The humanists of Italian Renaissance movement were strongly influenced by Byzantine intellectuals who migrated into Italy during the period of the fall of Byzantium. Italian young humanists followed their Byzantine teachers to learn Greek language and literature,which nobody could read in Italy during the seven-hundred years before the Renaissance. Humanists translated the classical masterpieces that were donated by the Byzantine intellectuals,under the direction of their Byzantine tutors. The devotion of Byzantine intellectuals to the classical Greek,their love to classical learning and their passion for the Platonism,as well as their classical obsession,helped Italian humanists to develop the Renaissance movement in Italy.