1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
APOSTOLIUS, MICHAEL (d. c. 1480), a Greek theologian and rhetorician of the isth century. When, in 1453, the Turks conquered Constantinople, his native city, he fled to Italy, and there obtained the protection of Cardinal Bessarion. But engaging in the great dispute that then raged between the upholders of Aristotle and Plato, his zeal for the latter led him to speak so contemptuously of the more popular philosopher and of his defender, Theodorus Gaza, that he fell under the severe displeasure of his patron. He aft…
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