Meanwhile, in Renaissance Italy, a new period in the history of translation had opened in Florence with the arrival, at the court of Cosimo de' Medici, of the Byzantine scholar Georgius Gemistus Pletho shortly before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1453). A Latin translation of Plato's works was undertaken by Marsilio Ficino. This and Erasmus' Latin edition of the New Testament led to a new attitude to translation. For the first time, readers demanded rigor of rendering, as philosophical and religious beliefs depended on the exact words of Plato, Aristotle and Jesus. COUNT 5
QSN1 Whose court did Pletho arrive in and begin a new period of translation in Renaissance Italy? ANS1 Cosimo de' Medici QSN2 What title did Georgius Gemistus Pletho carry? ANS2 Byzantine scholar QSN3 When did Constantinople fall to the Turks? ANS3 1453 QSN4 Who undertook translating Plato's works to Latin? ANS4 Marsilio Ficino QSN5 What did religious beliefs depend upon when it came to Plato, Aristotle and Jesus? ANS5 the exact words