Printing and Publishing

Cretan intellectuals were also to distinguish themselves as printers and publishers in Venice, Rome, Milan and other European cities, including Paris and Geneva. The first printed Greek book, Konstantinos Laskaris' Grammar, was published in Milan by Dimitrios Damilas. In Venice, Zacharias Kalliergis, Nikolas Vlastos and other Greek associates founded and operated a printing press. Established in Rome in 1515, the first exclusively Greek press produced works by Pindar, Theocritus and others. In Venice, Markos Moussouros, an associate of the well-known printer Aldus Manutius and one of the foremost expatriate Greeks, published the complete works of Plato, Aristophanes' plays, works by Hesychius and other Greek texts.