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MICHAEL APOSTOLIUS (d. c. 1480)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 205 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL See also:APOSTOLIUS (d. c. 1480)  , a See also:Greek theologian and rhetorician of the 15th See also:century . When, in 1453, the See also:Turks conquered See also:Constantinople, his native See also:city, he fled to See also:Italy, and there obtained the See also:protection of See also:Cardinal See also:Bessarion . But engaging in the See also:great dispute that then raged between the up-holders of See also:Aristotle and See also:Plato, his zeal for the latter led him to speak so contemptuously of the more popular philosopher and of his defender, See also:Theodorus See also:Gaza, that he See also:fell under the severe displeasure of his See also:patron . He afterwards retired to See also:Crete, where he earned a scanty living by teaching and by copying See also:manuscripts . Many of his copies are still to be found in the See also:libraries of See also:Europe . One of them, the Icones of See also:Philostratus at See also:Bologna, bears the inscription: " The See also:king of the poor of this See also:world has written this See also:book for his living." See also:Apostolius died about 1480, leaving two sons, See also:Aristobulus Apostolius and See also:Arsenius . The latter became See also:bishop of See also:Malvasia (Monemvasia) in the Morea . Of his numerous See also:works a few have been printed: Hapoestac (See also:Basel, 1538), now exceedingly rare; a collection of See also:proverbs in Greek, of which a See also:fuller edition appeared at See also:Leiden, " Curante Heinsio," in 1619; " Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. ii . (See also:Frankfort, 1624); Georgii Gemisthi Plethonis et Mich . Apostolii Orationes funebres duce in quibus de Immortalitate Animae exponitur (See also:Leipzig, 1793) ; and a See also:work against the Latin See also:Church and the See also:council of See also:Florence in Le Moine's See also:Varia Sacra .

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