Chrysoloras

Chrysoloras, a uative of Constantinople. wlio has been styled the reatorer of G reek in Italy, carried Qreek lore and taught his uative tcaigne to tlie magnates and j-omb of the principal Italian cities froni 1400 to 1415, and liis tíreek graiuruar was the standard for mauy years. üreek at thattime was little known in vrestern and northern Europe, not a single book in that ïdiom being f ound in the libia ry of the king of Frauce as late as 1425, but it be carne a favorito study in Italy, where many Greek scholars fonud refnge after the final overthrow of the easteru empire in 1453.