CH RYSOLO R A S, :MANUEL ?-1415). A llyzantine cheek scholar, born in the middle of the Fourteenth Century. lie has the distinction of being the first important teacher of Greek of the Renaissance. Toward the end of the Fourteenth Century his scholarship became famons•itt Italy, so that Guarino da Verona went to Constantinople to learn Greek of him. About 1393 he was sent by the Byzantine Em peror to the \Vest to ask assistanee from Italy and England against the Turks. While on this mission he became known to many Italians. and in 1396. being invited by the Florentine Re public, lie settled in Florence as a teacher of Greek literature. Within the next few years Chrysolora s had. among the most eminent I/I his pupils, Niecohl Niccoli, Leonardo Brun', Manetti• and others. • In 1400 he left, Florence. and two years later he was teaching in Pavia, where he translated Plato's Republic into Latin. During the nest
decade he seems to have traveled in France, Spain, and England, and to have been engaged in teaching Greek in a number of Italian cities. Be was employed by Pope Gregory XII. in an attempt to bring about the union of the Greek with the Roman Chn•ch. lie aceompanied .1ohn XXIII. to the Council of Constance, and died while it was in progress. April 15, 1413.
Ilk most inlimrtatil work was his tI•c•k th-ani taar, first published in Venice in 1484, which was for many years the standard work fur Greek teaching in Italy and elsewhere. Another in teresting work was his comparison of ancient and modern Rome (lerripurts 7aXall6c nai veric P,:tys). Consult : Voigt, Dies ll'irdcr/alcbany des k/assi sehen A/ter/bums, i. (11erlin, 893 ) Symonds. Renaissance in Italy, II. (London, 11477).