The Italiad was an epic poem that the Roman politician George Lakhanodrakon worked on in the 1310s. It told the story of Emperor Constans II's conquest of Italia from the Lombards in the seventh century AD. The discovery of movable type in 1316 hastened the poem's distribution; Basil Argyros was able to make 35 copies relatively quickly with this new method.
Lakhanodrakon was impressed and a little embarrassed; he knew of only a handful works that had thirty-five copies in all of Constantinople.[1]
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- ↑ Agent of Byzantium, loc. 3208-323-, ebook.
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