Michael Apostolius
Template:Short description Michael Apostolius (Template:Langx; c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in Constantinople – after 1474 or 1486, possibly in Venetian Crete)[1] or Apostolius Paroemiographus, i.e. Apostolius the proverb-writer, was a Greek teacher, writer and copyist who lived in the fifteenth century.
Life
Apostolius, a student of John Argyropoulos, taught for a short time at the Monastery of St. John of Petra in Constantinople.[1] Taken prisoner by the Turks during the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he was later released and fled to Crete, then a Venetian colony.[1] There he earned a scanty living by teaching and by copying manuscripts for Italian humanists, including his patron, Cardinal Bessarion.Template:Sfn[1] He often complained about his poverty: one of his manuscripts, a copy of the Eikones of Philostratus, now in Bologna, bears the inscription: "The king of the poor of this world has written this book for his living."Template:Sfn
Apostolius died about 1480, leaving a son, Arsenius Apostolius, who became bishop of Malvasia (Monemvasia) in the Morea.Template:Sfn
Selected works
- Παροιμίαι (Paroemiae, Greek for "proverbs"), a collection of proverbs in Greek
- "Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. ii. (Frankfort, 1624)
- Georgii Gemisthi Plethonis et Mich. Apostolii Orationes funebres duae in quibus de Immortalitate Animae exponitur (Leipzig, 1793)
- a work against the Latin Church and the council of Florence in Le Moine's Varia Sacra.
See also
Notes
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- ↑ Apostolii Bisantii Paroemiae, Basel, 1538.
- ↑ Michaelis Apostolii Paroemiae, ed. Daniel Heinsius, Leiden, 1619.
- ↑ E. L. a Leutsch, ed., Corpus paroeimiographorum Graecorum, Gottingen, 1851, vol. 2, pp. 233–744.
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References
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- 1420s births
- 1480 deaths
- 15th-century Byzantine writers
- Greek theologians
- Greek Renaissance humanists
- People from Constantinople
- Year of birth uncertain
- People from the Kingdom of Candia
- 15th-century Greek writers
- 15th-century Greek educators