Andronikos Kallistos ( el, Ανδρόνικος Καλλίστος) was a teacher of Greek literature in Bologna, Rome, Florence, Paris and London. He was one of the most able

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scholars of the 15th century and cousin of the distinguished scholar Theodorus Gaza. He was born in

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

in 1400. He lived and studied in

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. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Kallistos went to

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where he joined

Basilios Bessarion Bessarion ( el, 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 ...

. He taught in

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(1464),

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(1469),

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and

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(1476). He began the systematic teaching of Greek literature in

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. He communicated the principles of Aristotelian thought to many of his students, whose learning won them distinction in Europe. He possessed a large collection of Greek manuscripts. He traveled extensively in

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and ca. 1476 in

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he would die.

Life

Born in

Thessalonica Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

he worked as a professor in

and

. Among his works is a defence of Theodore of Gaza's positions against the criticisms of Michael Apostolius (''Andronicus Callistus Defensio Theodori Gazae adversus Michaelem Apostolium'').William Smith, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', 1853, p.176

References

Bibliography

* G. Cammelli, 'Andronico Callisto', ''La Rinascita'', 5 (1942), 104-21, 174-214 * Jonathan Harris, ''Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520'' (Camberley: Porphyrogenitus, 1995). * John Monfasani, ‘A philosophical text of Andronicus Callistus misattributed to Nicholas Secundinus’, ''Renaissance Studies in Honour of Craig Hugh Smyth'' (Florence, 1985), pp. 395-406, reprinted in John Monfasani, ''Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and other Emigres'' (Aldershot, 1995), no. XIII * J. E. Powell, ‘Two letters of Andronicus Callistus to Demetrius Chalcondyles’, ''Byzantinisch-Neugriechische Jahrbücher'' 15 (1938), 14-20

External links

List of Great Macedonians (15th-19th century)
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