Neakademia

Academy founded by the printer Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500 to encourage Greek scholarship. It had between 35 and 40 members, about a third of them Greeks. Members were divided into sections to undertake specific publishing projects for the Aldine press. Among its members were the scholars Aleandro and Bembo, and visitors included Erasmus and Linacre.

Under its constitution, which was drawn up in Greek, only Greek was to be spoken at its sessions. Fines for violation of this rule were accumulated to provide occasional banquets in imitation of Plato's symposia.