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Thomas Flanginis (1578–1648) was a wealthy Greek[1][2][3] lawyer and merchant in Venice, who founded the Flanginian School, a Greek college where many teachers were trained.[4] His family were originally from the island of Corfu.[5]
References
^ Biucchi, Edwina – Pilling, Simon – Collie, Keith (2002). Venice: an architectural guide. Batsford. ISBN 071348781X. "Tommaso Flangini, a wealthy Greek merchant and . in 1664 . a late entrant to the Venetian Republic's patriciate) were enclosed"
^ Goy, Richard John (1997). Venice: the city and its architecture. Phaidon. p. 235. ISBN 0714830054. "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;"
^ Runciman, Steven (1986). 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. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 0521313104. "In 1626 a rich Venetian Greek, Thomas Flanginis, presented the colony with a large sum of money to be spent on education;"
^ Runciman, Steven (1986). 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. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 0521313104.
^ Politēs, Linos (1973). A history of modern Greek literature. Clarendon Press. p. 50. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
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