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	Station Information - Manuel Chrysoloras
		Chrysoloras arrived in the winter of 1397, an event remembered by his most famous pupil, the humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni, as a great new opportunity: there were many teachers of law, but no one had studied Greek in Italy for 700 years.
		Chrysoloras was on his way there, having been chosen to represent the Greek Church, when he died suddenly.
		Though Chrysoloras became famous as a translator of Homer and Plato (The Republic), his works circulated in manuscript in his lifetime; two were eventually printed, his Erotemata (Questions).
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/manuel_chrysoloras.html (435 words)

	Manuel Chrysoloras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1390 he led an embassy sent to Venice by the emperor Manuel II Palaeologus to implore the aid of the Christian princes against the Turks.
		In 1413 he went to Germany on an embassy to the emperor Sigismund, the object of which was to fix a place for the church council that later assembled at Constance.
		The international fraternity Kappa Sigma, founded at the University of Virginia in 1869 traditionally claims that Manuel Chrysoloras was the founder of its brotherhood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manuel_Chrysoloras (486 words)

	MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS (OR EMMANUEL) - LoveToKnow Article on MANUEL CHRYSOLORAS (OR EMMANUEL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1393 he was sent to Italy by the emperor Manuel Palaeologus to implore the aid of theChristian princes against the Turks.
		In 1408 be 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, theobject of which was to fix a place for the assembling of a generalcouncil.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHRYSOLORAS_MANUEL_OR_EMMANUEL_.htm (577 words)

	Manuel Chrysoloras
		In 1393 he was sent to Italy by the emperor Manuel Palaeologus to implore the aid of the Christian princes against the Turks.
		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.
		It was decided that the meeting should take place at Constance; and Chrysoloras was on his way thither, having been chosen to represent the Greek Church, when he died suddenly on the 15th of April 1415.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Manuel_Chrysoloras.html (275 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Manuel II
		Manuel II(1391-1425) was the second-to-last emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
		Manuel's father, Emperor John V (1341-1391), had to deal with the crossing of the Hellespont by the Turks, who first conquered Thrace and Macedonia and in 1389 at the battle of Kossovo destroyed and conquered the Serbian Empire.
		Manuel had to consent to a treaty in which it was specified that a quarter for Turkish merchants should be set up in Constantinople with its own Kadi (a Moslem learned man and magistrate.) At first Manuel succeeded in taking advantage of the sultan's involvements to reestablish control over Thessaloniki and parts of Macedonia.
	www.roman-emperors.org /manuel2.htm (6419 words)

	Manuel Moschopulus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manuel Moschopulus ("little calf," probably a nickname), Byzantine commentator and grammarian, lived during the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century.
		He was also the author of scholia on the first and second books of the Iliad, on Hesiod, Theocritus, Pindar and other classical and later authors; of riddles, letters, and a treatise on the magic squares.
		His grammatical treatises formed the foundation of the labors of such promoters of classical studies as Manuel Chrysoloras, Theodorus Gaza, Guarini, and Constantine Lascaris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manuel_Moschopulus (193 words)

	Manuel Chrysoloras -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1390 he led an embassy sent to Venice by the emperor (Click link for more info and facts about Manuel II Palaeologus) Manuel II Palaeologus to implore the aid of the Christian princes against the (A native or inhabitant of Turkey) Turks.
		Chrysoloras arrived in the winter of 1397, an event remembered by his most famous pupil, the humanist scholar (Click link for more info and facts about Leonardo Bruni) Leonardo Bruni, as a great new opportunity: there were many teachers of law, but no one had studied Greek in Italy for 700 years.
		Though Chrysoloras became famous as a translator of (An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs) Homer and (Ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)) Plato (The Republic), his works circulated in manuscript in his lifetime; two were eventually printed, his Erotemata (Questions).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/manuel_chrysoloras.htm (590 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Chrysoloras Manuel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Renaissance was the period in which the education of boys in mathematics and the Classics became widespread.
		Manuel II (1889-1932), last King of Portugal, born in Lisbon.
		He succeeded to the throne in 1908 during the troubled period after the assassination...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Chrysoloras_Manuel.html (85 words)

	Chrysoloras, Manuel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chrysoloras, detail of a drawing by an unknown artist, c.
		The new sultan Bayezid I (1389–1402) intended to make it his capital; when Manuel II came to that throne at his father's death in 1391, the Sultan warned him that he was emperor only inside the city walls.
		The Spanish tenor and composer Manuel Vicente García was one of the finest singers of his time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9082477?tocId=9082477 (620 words)

	Manuel Chrysoloras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chrysoloras llegó en el invierno de 1397, un acontecimiento recordado por su pupila más famosa, el erudito Leonardo Bruni del humanista, como gran nueva oportunidad: había muchos profesores de la ley, pero nadie había estudiado Griego en Italia por 700 años.
		Chrysoloras seguía siendo solamente algunos años en Florencia, a partir la 1397 a 1400, Griego de enseñanza, comenzando con los rudimentos.
		Chrysoloras estaba en su manera allí, siendo elegido representar la iglesia griega, cuando él murió repentinamente.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ma/Manuel%20Chrysoloras.htm (489 words)

	Byzantines in Renaissance Italy
		Manuel Chrysoloras arrived in Italy at the end of the fourteenth century.
		Chrysoloras was not the only one to receive such a welcome.
		Early in the fifteenth century, Manuel Chrysoloras co-operated with Uberto Decembrio (d.1427) to produce a Latin version of Plato's Republic, and in Rome the process of translation was specifically encouraged by Popes Nicholas V (1447-55) and Sixtus IV (1471-84).
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/late/laterbyz/harris-ren.html (3731 words)

	Manuel II Palaeologus -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		He was crowned coemperor with his father, John V Palaeologus, in 1373; his brother Andronicus IV seized the throne in 1376, but Manuel and his father regained it with Turkish aid in 1379.
		Manuel was forced to live as a vassal at the Turkish court but escaped after his father's death (1391).
		A treaty in 1403 kept peace with the Turks until 1421, when Manuel's son and coemperor John VIII meddled in Turkish affairs.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9371220 (700 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Manuel II Palaeologus
		Manuel II Palaeologus (1348?-1425), son and successor of the Byzantine emperor John V Palaeologus.
		In 1391 he escaped from the court of the Ottoman...
		John VIII Palaeologus (1390-1448), Byzantine emperor (1425-48), eldest son and successor of Emperor Manuel II.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Manuel_II_Palaeologus.html (148 words)

	ΑΠ
		Manuel Chrysoloras, a Greek Scholar, who taught at the University, founded the group.
		In that day of city-states, the group's initial purpose was mutual protection of its members against physical attack and robbery by the unscrupulous governor of the city, Baldassare Cossa.
		In 1400, Chrysoloras and his five disciples formed a society for mutual protection, which inspired the Ritual and beliefs of modern day Kappa Sigma.
	www.wabash.edu /orgs/fraternity/kappasig/history.htm (1082 words)

	TCA's Greek Too!: Articles 2
		Chrysoloras’ fame was achieved as a teacher of Greek, not as a Wissenschaftler; In Scribes and Scholars, Reynolds and Wilson remark that 1397, the year Chrysoloras began his lectures in Florence “is a date of fundamental importance in the cultural history of Europe”(131, my italics).
		Chrysoloras’ Byzantine method of instruction, i.e., to comment on a text from both an idiomatic and rhetorical direction (Methodice) and on the informational or historical side (Historice), remains standard today in commentaries on Classical texts (Bolgar 270).
		Chrysoloras’ example demonstrates the dynamism and influence of pedagogy as a major contributory force in the development of culture; it further suggests that enthusiastic teaching can contribute to the revival of Greek now just as it did in the Renaissance.
	www.txclassics.org /greekarticles8.htm (2180 words)

	Guarino da Verona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guarino da Verona (1370 - December 14, 1460), one of the Italian restorers of classical learning, was born in 1370 at Verona, and studied Greek at Constantinople, where for five years he was the pupil of Manuel Chrysoloras.
		When he set out on his return to Italy he was the happy possessor of two cases of precious Greek manuscripts which he had been at great pains to collect; it is said that the loss of one of these by shipwreck caused him such distress that his hair turned grey in a single night.
		His principal works are translations of Strabo and of some of the Lives of Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek grammar of Chrysoloras, and a series of commentaries on Persius, Juvenal, Martial and on some of the writings of Aristotle and Cicero.
	www.termsdefined.net /gu/guarino-da-verona.html (331 words)

	MOSCHOPULUS - LoveToKnow Article on MOSCHOPULUS
		("little calf," probably a nickname), MANUEL, Byzantine commentator and grammarian, lived during the end of the 13th and the beginning of the I4th century.
		His chief work is 'Epcoriy/iara ypa/ji/jLariKa, in the form of question and answer, based upon an anonymous epitome of grammar, and supplemented by a lexicon (o-v\\oyfi) of Attic nouns.
		His grammatical treatises formed the foundation of the labors of such promoters of classical studies as Manuel Chrysoloras, Theodorus Gaza, Guarini, and Con-stantine Lascaris.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MOSCHOPULUS.htm (329 words)

	AllRefer.com - Manuel Chrysoloras (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Manuel Chrysoloras (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Manuel Chrysoloras[krisulOr´us] Pronunciation Key, c.1350–1415, Greek teacher and writer, b.
		Traveling to Italy on a diplomatic mission, he became celebrated for his teaching and introduced Greek literature into Florence and other Italian cities.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Chrysolo.html (213 words)

	Chapter Union Of The Greek And Latin Churches. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
		The succeeding generation was content for a while with the improvement of Latin eloquence; nor was it before the end of the fourteenth century that a new and perpetual flame was rekindled in Italy.
		After visiting the courts of France and England, where he obtained some contributions and more promises, the envoy was invited to assume the office of a professor; and Florence had again the honor of this second invitation.
		His school was frequented by a crowd of disciples of every rank and age; and one of these, in a general history, has described his motives and his success.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/1/62/109/25726/2.html (752 words)

	Chrysoloras, Manuel -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus sent him to Italy to get help against the Ottoman Turks.
		Argentine auto racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce.
		During that period he was named world champion driver five times.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9082477 (621 words)

	Numbering Systems
		He gave council and encouragement to a number of humanist philosophers including the Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras.
		Manuel Chrysoloras (1353-1415) was a Greek scholar who was sent to Italy by his emperor to get help against the Ottorman Turks.
		A student of Chrysoloras at Constantinople was Guarino da Verona (1370-1446).
	www.wesoomi.com /evoluton/he052.html (1139 words)

	Kappa Sigma - History
		There were five students who considered themselves sons of Manuel Chrysoloras banded together with Chrysoloras and created Kappa Sigma to protect themselves against the corrupt governor of Bologna, Baldassarre Cossa.
		It was time for the tradition established by Chrysoloras and his disciples at the dawn of the Renaissance to reach America.
		Time permitting it will be updated and you the reader will have the pleasure of discovering why our house is haunted by the ghost of one of our house moms, when the glorious tradition of "chaining began", who in fact replaced George, and many other important Earth Shaking Historical Facts.
	oregonstate.edu /groups/ksig/history.htm (3562 words)

	Chrysoloras Emmanuel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1393 the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus sent Chrysoloras to Italy to enlist aid against the Turks.
		Chrysoloras settled in Italy, where he became a pioneer in reviving the study of Greek culture.
		He taught Greek in Florence and other cities and made notable translations of Homer and Plato.
	www.konstantinoupoli.com /people/chrysoloras.html (83 words)

	MANUEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Search the MANUEL Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the MANUEL Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named MANUEL at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/M/MANUEL.htm (73 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Chrysoloras, Manuel (1350-1415)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Chrysoloras, Manuel (1350-1415)@ HighBeam Research
		Chrysoloras was born in Constantinople and was a pupil of Plethon.
		In 1393 Emperor Manuel Palaeologus sent him to...
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	The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire 66
		But the unnatural youth was insensible of the disgrace, and secretly pleased with the captivity of the emperor: the state was poor, the clergy were obstinate; nor could some religious scruple be wanting to excuse the guilt of his indifference and delay.
		Such undutiful neglect was severely reproved by the piety of his brother Manuel, who instantly sold or mortgaged all that he possessed, embarked for Venice, relieved his father, and pledged his own freedom to be responsible for the debt.
		A.D. The eldest of the sons of Manuel, John Palaeologus the Second, was acknowledged, after his father's death, as the sole emperor of the Greeks.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/gibbone/rome/volume2/chap66.htm (12178 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Humanism
		Italians had already gone to Greece to study the language, and since 1396 Manuel Chrysoloras, the first teacher of Greek in the West, was busily engaged at Florence and elsewhere.
		Although in matters of religion Marsuppini was a notorious heathen, Nicholas V sought to attract him to Rome to translate Homer.
		Among his contemporaries, Leonardo Bruni, a pupil of Chrysoloras, enjoyed great fame as a Greek scholar and a unique reputation for his political and literary activity.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07538b.htm (4115 words)

	A Breif History
		A Greek scholar named Manuel Chrysoloras at the University of Bologna in Italy founded a society for mutual protection against harassment and attacks by the governor of Bologna, Baldassarre Cossa.
		It was with the spirit of Chrysoloras that the five founders founded Kappa Sigma here in America.
		At the University of Virginia, William Grigsby McCormick, George Miles Arnold, Frank Courtney Nicodemus, Edmund Law Rogers, and John Covert Boyd met in McCormick's room on the night of December 10, 1869 and founded Kappa Sigma.
	www.greeks.psu.edu /ifc/ks/history.html (225 words)

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