Antonio Urceo

Antonio Urceo called Codro (Latin Antonius Urceus; born August 14, 1446 Rubiera, † February 11, 1500 in Bologna ) was an Italian humanist, whose family came from Orzinuovi at Brescia.

Antonio Urceo 1479 he was in Forlì teachers including the long-established family Ordelaffi, which gave him the nickname Codrus, after Kodros, the last king of Attica or after the poor poet in Juvenal's third satire. From 1482 until his death in 1500, he taught the Greek language at the University of Bologna. The Epicureans was donated by the Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Manutius in 1499 a collected edition of the Greek Epistles, for use in teaching. This also included works of Theophylaktos Simokates, which was translated into Latin by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1509 in Krakow by Johann Haller. This only independent publication of the astronomers who studied in Bologna from 1496, is regarded as an indication that he had learned Greek at Codrus.