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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 320 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANUEL [or See also:EMMANUEL] See also:CHRYSOLCRAS (e. 1355-1415)  , one of the pioneers in spreading See also:Greek literature in the See also:West, was See also:born at See also:Constantinople of a distinguished See also:family, which had removed with See also:Constantine the See also:Great to See also:Byzantium . He was a See also:pupil of Gemistus (q.v.) . In 1393 he was sent to See also:Italy by the See also:emperor See also:Manuel See also:Palaeologus to implore the aid of the See also:Christian princes against the See also:Turks . He returned to Constantinople, but at the invitation of the magistrates of See also:Florence he became about 1395 See also:professor of the Greek See also:language in that See also:city, where he taught three years . He became famous as a translator of See also:Homer and See also:Plato . Having visited See also:Milan and See also:Pavia, and resided for several years at See also:Venice, he went to See also:Rome upon the invitation of See also:Bruni Leonardo, who had been his pupil, and was then secretary to See also:Gregory XII . In 1408 he was sent to See also:Paris on an important See also:mission from the emperor Manuel Palaeologus . In 1413 he went to See also:Germany on an See also:embassy to the emperor See also:Sigismund, the See also:object of which was to See also:fix a See also:place for the assembling of a See also:general See also:council . It was decided that the See also:meeting should take place at See also:Constance; and Chrysoloras was on his way thither, having been chosen to represent the Greek See also:Church, when he died suddenly on the 15th of See also:April 1415 . Only two of his See also:works have been printed, his Erolemala (published at Venice in 1484), which was the first Greek See also:grammar in use in the West, and Epistolae III. de comparatione See also:veto-is et novae Romae .

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