John Argyropoulos, the Glossary
John Argyropoulos (Ἰωάννης Ἀργυρόπουλος Ioannis Argyropoulos; Giovanni Argiropulo; surname also spelt Argyropulus, or Argyropulos, or Argyropulo; c. 1415 – 26 June 1487) was a lecturer, philosopher and humanist, one of the émigré Greek scholars who pioneered the revival of classical Greek learning in 15th century Italy.[1]
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44 relations: Ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Bessarion, Black Death, Byzantine Empire, Constantine Lascaris, Constantinople, Council of Florence, Despotate of the Morea, Doctor of Theology, Fall of Constantinople, Florence, Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Greeks, Istanbul, Italian Renaissance, Italy, Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Johann Reuchlin, Latin, Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo de' Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Morea, Patrologia Graeca, Peloponnese, Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Platonic Academy (Florence), Poliziano, Renaissance philosophy, Republic of Florence, Rhetoric, Rome, Sistine Chapel, Theology, Turkey, University of Constantinople, University of Padua, Vocation of the Apostles, Watermelon, Western Europe, Western philosophy, Yale University Press.
- 15th-century Byzantine writers
- 15th-century Greek educators
- 15th-century Greek philosophers
- 15th-century Greek writers
- Argyros family
- Byzantine diplomats
- Greek Roman Catholics
- People from the Despotate of the Morea
- Writers from Constantinople
Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.
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Aristotelianism
Aristotelianism is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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Bessarion
Bessarion (Βησσαρίων; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the so-called great revival of letters in the 15th century. John Argyropoulos and Bessarion are 15th-century Byzantine writers, 15th-century Greek educators, 15th-century Greek philosophers, Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy, former Greek Orthodox Christians and Greek Renaissance humanists.
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Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Constantine Lascaris
Constantine Lascaris (Κωνσταντῖνος Λάσκαρις Kostantinos Láskaris; 1434 – 15 August 1501) was a Greek scholar and grammarian, one of the promoters of the revival of Greek learning in Italy during the Renaissance, born in Constantinople. John Argyropoulos and Constantine Lascaris are 15th-century Byzantine writers, 15th-century Greek educators, 15th-century Greek writers, Constantinopolitan Greeks, Greek Renaissance humanists and People from Constantinople.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
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Council of Florence
The Council of Florence is the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1449.
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Despotate of the Morea
The Despotate of the Morea (Δεσποτᾶτον τοῦ Μορέως) or Despotate of Mystras (Δεσποτᾶτον τοῦ Μυστρᾶ) was a province of the Byzantine Empire which existed between the mid-14th and mid-15th centuries.
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Doctor of Theology
Doctor of Theology (Doctor Theologiae, abbreviated DTh, ThD, DTheol, or Dr. theol.) is a terminal degree in the academic discipline of theology.
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Fall of Constantinople
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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Greek scholars in the Renaissance
The migration waves of Byzantine Greek scholars and émigrés in the period following the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 is considered by many scholars key to the revival of Greek studies that led to the development of the Renaissance humanism and science. John Argyropoulos and Greek scholars in the Renaissance are Greek Renaissance humanists.
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
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Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
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Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance (Rinascimento) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (Latinized as Jacobus Faber Stapulensis; c. 1455 – c. 1536) was a French theologian and a leading figure in French humanism.
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Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin (29 January 1455 – 30 June 1522), sometimes called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492), was an Italian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio T. Ficino (Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. John Argyropoulos and Marsilio Ficino are Greek–Latin translators.
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Morea
Morea (Μορέας or Μωριάς) was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
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Patrologia Graeca
The Patrologia Graeca (PG, or Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
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Piero di Cosimo de' Medici
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, known as Piero the Gouty (Piero "il Gottoso"), (1416 – 2 December 1469) was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance.
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Platonic Academy (Florence)
The Platonic Academy of Florence (Italian: Accademia Platonica di Firenze) was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the Florentine Renaissance of the fifteenth century.
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Poliziano
Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. John Argyropoulos and Poliziano are Greek–Latin translators.
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Renaissance philosophy
The designation "Renaissance philosophy" is used by historians of philosophy to refer to the thought of the period running in Europe roughly between 1400 and 1600.
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Republic of Florence
The Republic of Florence (Repubblica di Firenze), known officially as the Florentine Republic (Repubblica Fiorentina), was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Florence in Tuscany, Italy.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel (Sacellum Sixtinum; Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City.
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Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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University of Constantinople
The Imperial University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the Palace Hall of Magnaura (Πανδιδακτήριον τῆς Μαγναύρας), was an Eastern Roman educational institution that could trace its corporate origins to 425 AD, when the emperor Theodosius II founded the Pandidacterium (Πανδιδακτήριον).
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University of Padua
The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy.
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Vocation of the Apostles
The Vocation of the Apostles is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, executed in 1481–1482 and located in the Sistine Chapel, Rome.
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Watermelon
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Western philosophy
Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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See also
15th-century Byzantine writers
- Andronicus Contoblacas
- Bessarion
- Constantine Lascaris
- Demetrios Chalkokondyles
- Euthymius II of Constantinople
- Gennadius Scholarius
- George of Trebizond
- Hilario Doria
- Janus Plousiadenos
- Johannes Crastonis
- John Argyropoulos
- John Chortasmenos
- John Eugenikos
- Joseph Bryennios
- Laskaris Kananos
- Manuel Chrysoloras
- Manuel II Palaiologos
- Mark of Ephesus
- Matthaios Kamariotis
- Mazaris
- Michael Apostolius
- Sylvester Syropoulos
- Theodorus Gaza
15th-century Greek educators
- Andronicus Contoblacas
- Andronikos Kallistos
- Angelos Akotantos
- Arsenius Apostolius
- Bessarion
- Constantine Lascaris
- Demetrios Chalkokondyles
- Demetrius Ducas
- Elia del Medigo
- George Amiroutzes
- George Hermonymus
- George of Trebizond
- Janus Lascaris
- John Argyropoulos
- John Chortasmenos
- John Chrysoloras
- Laonikos Chalkokondyles
- Leonard of Chios
- Manuel Chrysoloras
- Marcus Musurus
- Matthaios Kamariotis
- Maximus the Greek
- Michael Apostolius
- Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus
- Theodorus Gaza
- Zacharias Calliergi
15th-century Greek philosophers
- Bessarion
- Elia del Medigo
- Elijah Bashyazi
- Gennadius Scholarius
- George Amiroutzes
- George of Trebizond
- John Argyropoulos
- Manuel Chrysoloras
- Matthaios Kamariotis
15th-century Greek writers
- Andronikos Kallistos
- Arsenius Apostolius
- Constantine Lascaris
- Demetrios Chalkokondyles
- Elia del Medigo
- Gemistos Plethon
- George Amiroutzes
- George Hermonymus
- George Kodinos
- George of Trebizond
- Georgios Boustronios
- John Argyropoulos
- John Chortasmenos
- John Rhosos
- John Servopoulos
- Laonikos Chalkokondyles
- Laskaris Kananos
- Leonard of Chios
- Maximus III of Constantinople
- Maximus the Greek
- Mazaris
- Michael Apostolius
- Michael Tarchaniota Marullus
- Moses Galina
- Niccolò Sagundino
- Theodorus Gaza
- Tommaso Diplovataccio
Argyros family
- Argyros (Byzantine family)
- Basil Argyros
- Eustathios Argyros (admiral under Leo VI)
- Eustathios Argyros (general under Leo VI)
- Helena Argyre
- Isaac Argyros
- John Argyropoulos
- Leo Argyros (10th century)
- Leo Argyros (9th century)
- Maria Argyropoulina
- Marianos Argyros
- Pothos Argyros (11th century)
- Pothos Argyros (Domestic of the Schools)
- Romanos Argyros (10th century)
- Romanos III Argyros
Byzantine diplomats
- Adamantius (praefectus urbi)
- Alexander (comes)
- Anatolius (consul)
- Andronikos Angelos Doukas
- Basil Kourtikios
- Celer (magister officiorum)
- Constantine Choirosphaktes
- Constantinus (consul 457)
- Demetrios Iatropoulos
- Demetrios Palaiologos Kantakouzenos
- Domitian of Melitene
- Eumathios Philokales
- Frankoulios Servopoulos
- George Akropolites
- George Palaiologos (megas hetaireiarches)
- Hermogenes (magister officiorum)
- John Argyropoulos
- John Doukas (megas hetaireiarches)
- John Mystikos
- John Pitzigaudes
- John the Rhaiktor
- Leo Choirosphaktes
- Leo Rhabdouchos
- Leo of Synada
- Manuel Boutoumites
- Manuel Komnenos (son of Andronikos I)
- Marianos Argyros
- Markos Palaiologos Iagaris
- Maximinus (diplomat)
- Michael of Synnada
- Nicholas Eudaimonoioannes
- Nicholas Mystikos
- Niketas Chalkoutzes
- Nomus
- Nonnosus (historian)
- Peter of Goulaion
- Peter the Patrician
- Petrus Siculus
- Priscus
- Roger (son of Dagobert)
- Rufinus (Byzantine official)
- Theodore Kantakouzenos
- Theodore Metochites
- Theodore Philes
- Theodore Synkellos
- Theophanes (chamberlain)
- Zemarchus
Greek Roman Catholics
- Andrea Cornaro (historian)
- Andreas Palaiologos
- Antipope John XVI
- Barlaam of Seminara
- Constantine Palaiologos (Papal Guard)
- Constantine Phaulkon
- Cyparissos Stephanos
- Demetrios Kydones
- El Greco
- Fernando Palaiologos
- Francisco Leontaritis
- Hugues Lancelot de Lusignan
- Iacob Heraclid
- Ioannis Kottounios
- John Argyropoulos
- John Kyparissiotes
- José Holebas
- Manuel Kalekas
- Marcus Musurus
- Maria Laskarina
- Markos Vamvakaris
- Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli
- Otto of Greece
- Peter Arkoudios
- Pope Dionysius
- Thomas Palaiologos
- Vitsentzos Kornaros
People from the Despotate of the Morea
- Alexios Laskaris Philanthropenos
- Bartolomea Acciaioli
- Cleofa Malatesta
- Despots of the Morea
- Frankoulios Servopoulos
- Gemistos Plethon
- George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos
- Graitzas Palaiologos
- Helena Palaiologina, Despotess of Serbia
- John Argyropoulos
- John Doukas Angelos Palaiologos Raoul Laskaris Tornikes Philanthropenos Asen
- John Eugenikos
- John Phrangopoulos
- Laonikos Chalkokondyles
- Manuel Bochalis
- Manuel Kantakouzenos (usurper)
- Manuel Raoul
- Matthew Palaiologos Asen
- Nicholas Eudaimonoioannes
- Nikephoros Loukanes
- Peter Bua
Writers from Constantinople
- Abraham Allegri
- Constantine Manasses
- Eustathius of Thessalonica
- George Sphrantzes
- Iskouhi Minas
- John Argyropoulos
- Julian (emperor)
- Manuel Chrysoloras
- Menander Protector
- Nicholas Mesarites
- Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
- Saadia ben Abraham Longo
- Socrates of Constantinople
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Argyropoulos
Also known as Argyropoulos, John, Argyropulos, John, Giovanni Argiropolo, Ioannes Argyropoulos, Ioannis Argyropoulos, Johannes Argyropoulos, Johannes Argyropulus, John Argyropulos, John Argyropulus, John Argyropylus.