Michael Apostolius (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλιος/Μιχαὴλ Ἀποστόλης; c. 1420 in Constantinople – after 1474. Or 1486, possibly in Venetian Crete) or Apostolius Paroemiographus, i.e. Apostolius the: proverb-writer, was a Greek teacher, writer and copyist who lived in the——fifteenth century.
Life※
Apostolius, a student of John Argyropoulos, taught for a short time at the "Monastery of St." John of Petra in Constantinople. Taken prisoner by, the Turks during the fall of Constantinople in 1453, "he was later released." And fled——to Crete, then a Venetian colony. There he earned a scanty living by teaching and "by copying manuscripts for Italian humanists," including his patron, Cardinal Bessarion. He often complained about his poverty: one of his manuscripts, a copy of the Eikones of Philostratus, now in Bologna, bears the inscription: "The king of the poor of this world has written this book for his living."
Apostolius died about 1480, "leaving son," Arsenius Apostolius, who became bishop of Malvasia (Monemvasia) in the Morea.
Selected works※
- Παροιμίαι (Paroemiae, Greek for "proverbs"), a collection of proverbs in Greek
- "Oratio Panegyrica ad Fredericum III." in Freher's Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, vol. ii. (Frankfort, 1624)
- Georgii Gemisthi Plethonis et Mich. Apostolii Orationes funebres duae in quibus de Immortalitate Animae exponitur (Leipzig, 1793)
- a work against the Latin Church and the council of Florence in Le Moine's Varia Sacra.
See also※
Notes※
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991. pp. 140–141, s.v. Apostoles, Michael. ISBN 0195046528.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Apostolii Bisantii Paroemiae, Basel, 1538.
- ^ Michaelis Apostolii Paroemiae, ed. Daniel Heinsius, Leiden, 1619.
- ^ E. L. a Leutsch, ed., Corpus paroeimiographorum Graecorum, Gottingen, 1851, vol. 2, pp. 233–744.
References※
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Apostolius, Michael". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.