[5] In 1626 a wealthy Greek merchant who lived in Venice, Thomas Flanginis, offered to the community a large sum of money for the foundation of a new school.

[6] The project for the construction of the school was entrusted to the famous Venetian architect Baldassare Longhena.

[1] Its graduates had the opportunity to continue their studies at Padua University, in order to obtain a doctoral degree.

[7] The school was located in the Campo dei Greci, near the Greek Orthodox church of Saint George.

[12] Today the building of the Flanginian School houses the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice.