Background
Manuel Chrysoloras was born in 1355 in Constantinople; son of Gemistus Pletho, a Platonist.
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Manuel Chrysoloras was born in 1355 in Constantinople; son of Gemistus Pletho, a Platonist.
He was a pupil of Gemistus.
He was not successful, largely because the western princes had little confidence in the Greeks and because they did not believe that such a crusade would effect the union of the Latin and Greek churches.
Among his pupils were Leonardo Bruni and Poggio Bracciolini.
Chrysoloras was one of the most learned men of his time, and was largely responsible for the revival of Greek literature in western Europe.
In 1408 he was sent to Paris on an important mission from the emperor Manuel Palaeologus.
In 1413 he went to Germany on an embassy to the emperor Sigismund, the object of which was to fix a place for the assembling of a general council.
His only printed works include Epistolae III de comparatione veteris et novae Romae, a comparison of ancient Rome with Constantinople, and Erotemata sive quaestiones (1484), the first Greek grammar in Italy, which went into many editions.
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1539He saw public service under the rival Popes Gregory XII and John XXIII, and he was sent by the latter to the court of Emperor Sigismund as representative of the Greek churches to arrange the Council of Constance.
