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ARGYROPULUS, or ARGYROPULO, See also:JOHN (c. 1416-1486)  , See also:Greek humanist, one of the earliest promoters of the revival of learning in the See also:West, was See also:born in See also:Constantinople, and became a teacher there, See also:Constantine See also:Lascaris being his See also:pupil . He then appears to have crossed over to See also:Italy, and taught in See also:Padua in 1434, being subsequently made See also:rector of the university . About 1441 he returned to Constantinople, but after its See also:capture by the See also:Turks, again took See also:refuge in Italy . About 1456 he was invited to See also:Florence by Cosimo de'See also:Medici, and was there appointed See also:professor of Greek in the university . In 1471, on the outbreak of the See also:plague, he removed to See also:Rome, where he continued to See also:act as a teacher of Greek till his See also:death . Among his scholars were See also:Angelus Politianus and Johann See also:Reuchlin . His See also:principal See also:works were See also:translations of the following portions of See also:Aristotle,—Categoriae, De Interpretatione, Analytica Posteriora, Physica, De Caelo, De Anima, Metaphysica, Ethica Nicomachea, Politica; and an Expositio Ethicorum Aristotelis . Several of his writings exist still in See also:manuscript . See See also:Humphrey See also:Hody, De Graecis Illustribus, 1742, and See also:Smith's See also:Dictionary of Greek and See also:Roman See also:Biography, s.v . Joannes .

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