movement death_date death_place birth_place imagesize ethnicity name article_title birth_name occupation
italian renaissance 1366 gulf of venice seminara , reggio calabria , southern italy . 250px disputed , italian or greek leontius pilatus leontius pilatus
 leontius pilatus -lrb- leonzio pilato -rrb- greek literature , latin literature , theology and philosophy
leontius pilatus

leontius pilatus , or leontius -lrb- `` leonzio pilato '' ; died 1366 -rrb- -lrb- latin : leontius pilatus , greek : Λεόντιος Πιλάτος , leontios pilatos , italian : leonzio pilato -rrb- , was a calabrian scholar and was one of the earliest promoters of greek studies in western europe .
leontius translated and commented upon works of euripides , aristotle and homer including the odyssey and the iliad into latin and was the first professor of greek in western europe .
