Barbaro, Ermolao (1454-1493)

Venetian humanist teacher and classical scholar. Born into the influential Barbaro family, his teachers included (as well as Pomponio Leto and Theodore Gazes) his own uncle, also called Ermolao Barbaro. He lectured in Venice on Aristotle and produced a commentary on Pliny the Elder, Castigiones Plinianae (1492-93). He was employed by Venice as a diplomat until he fell into disgrace by accepting Pope Innocent VIII's appointment as patriarch of Aquileia in 1491.