Demetrius Calcondilas prepares, and Demtrius Damilas prints the edition princeps of Homer in Florence. The importance of this publication transcends a love of literature, since in Homer are found the political foundations of almost every royal house of Europe, descended from a common trunk of Charlemagne, himself a direct descendant of King Priam of Troy.

(A decade later, the Nuremberg Chronicles would unequivocably publish the common belief that all European Civilization was descended from Troy.)

Friedrich Augustus Wolf publishes his Prolegomena ad Homerum I, with which a foundation becomes established for modern Homerology. His work is distinguished from that of his predecessors in that, rather than establishing what is, or is not, the text of Homer, he focuses on the problem of the authorship of the Homeric epics.