Catholic philologist; first teacher of Greek in Italy. Born Constantinople, c.1350;died Constance, Germany, 1415. He was Byzantine ambassador to Venice, taught Greek at Florence, Milan, and Pavia, and assisted Pope John XXIII in his efforts to end the Eastern Schism. Translated Plato's Republic into Latin. Author of the first modern Greek gramMarch
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