Thomas Flanginis

{{Short description|Greek-Venetian humanist (1578–1648)}}

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|name = Thomas Flanginis
(Tommaso Flangini)

|birth_date = 1578

|birth_place = Corfu, Republic of Venice

|death_date = 1648

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|main_interests = Greek literature

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Thomas Flanginis ({{langx|el|Θωμάς Φλαγγίνης}}, Italian: Tommaso Flangini; 1578–1648) was a wealthy Greek lawyer and merchant in Venice,{{cite book |author= Biucchi, Edwina – Pilling, Simon – Collie, Keith |title= Venice: an architectural guide |publisher= Batsford |year= 2002 |isbn= 0-7134-8781-X |quote= Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek merchant and . in 1664 . a late entrant to the Venetian Republic's patriciate) were enclosed }}{{cite book |author= Goy, Richard John |title= Venice: the city and its architecture |publisher= Phaidon |year= 1997 |page= [https://archive.org/details/venicecityitsarc00goyr/page/235 235] |isbn= 0-7148-3005-4 |quote= Immediately adjacent again is the imposing Collegio Flangini...built from the legacy of Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek merchant whose family had been enrolled in the Venetian patriciate in 1664; |url= https://archive.org/details/venicecityitsarc00goyr/page/235 }}{{cite book |author= Runciman, Steven |title= The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year= 1986 |page= [https://archive.org/details/greatchurchincap00sirs/page/212 212] |isbn= 0-521-31310-4 |quote= In 1626 a rich Venetian Greek, Thomas Flanginis, presented the colony with a large sum of money to be spent on education; |url= https://archive.org/details/greatchurchincap00sirs/page/212 }} who founded the Flanginian School, a Greek college where many teachers were trained.{{cite book |author= Runciman, Steven |title= The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year= 1986 |page= [https://archive.org/details/greatchurchincap00sirs/page/212 212] |isbn= 0-521-31310-4 |url= https://archive.org/details/greatchurchincap00sirs/page/212 }} The ‘Flanginian School’ established by Thomas Flanginis remained a renowned establishment for several centuries.{{cite book |title=Hellenism and the first Greek war of liberation (1821-1830): continuity and change |last= Diamandouros |first= Nikiforos P. |year= 1976 |publisher= Institute for Balkan Studies |oclc= 3734742 |quote= In 1626 a Cypriot, Thomas Flanginis, took the step of establishing in Venice what remained for about two centuries the most famous higher school established by a Greek for Greeks in Western Europe. This so-called Flangeneion school ... |page=67 }} He owned the Palazzo Flangini in Venice.

His father Apostolos Thomas was originally from the island of Corfu{{cite book|last=Politēs|first=Linos|title=A history of modern Greek literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnJiAAAAMAAJ&q=Thomas+Flanginis|access-date=28 November 2010|year=1973|publisher=Clarendon Press|page=50|isbn=9780198157212}} while his mother Maria Flangini was from the island of Cyprus.{{cite book |title= Berliner byzantinistische Arbeiten |last= Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin |first= Institut für Griechisch-Römische Altertumskunde, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin |year= 1968 |publisher= Akademie-Verlag |issn= 0067-6055 |quote= Thomas Flangini. He was born at Venice In 1579 of Apostólos Thomas of Corfu, and María daughter of Vincent Flangini, of Cyprus. His father held an eminent position in the Greek Community of Venice, but left him orphan vегу soon.|page= 229}}{{cite book |title= Venice: the city and its architecture |last= Goy |first= Richard John |year= 1997 |publisher= Phaidon |isbn= 9780714830056 |quote= Greek families from Venice's overseas empire were admitted to the nobility, among them the Flangini from Cyprus. |page= [https://archive.org/details/venicecityitsarc00goyr/page/234 234] |url= https://archive.org/details/venicecityitsarc00goyr/page/234 }}