This book offers a study of four Greek grammars modelled on a Latin elementary grammar called Ianua of Donatus; they represent a tradition of Greek studies contemporaneous with, and parallel to, the "official" Byzantine-humanist grammar that made the revival of Greek in the West possible.

Federica Ciccolella, Dottorato (1991) in Classics, Università di Torino and Ph.D. (2004) in Classical Studies, Columbia University, is Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. She has published on Byzantine poetry (Cinque poeti bizantini, Alessandria 2000) and the reception of antiquity in the Renaissance.