John Argyropoulos
![John Argyropoulos as depicted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1481 in the ''[[Vocation of the Apostles (Sistine Chapel)|Vocation of the Apostles]]'' fresco in the [[Sistine Chapel]], Rome.<ref>{{Cite book|author= Sleptzoff, L. M. |title=Men or supermen?: The Italian portrait in the fifteenth century |publisher=Magnes Press |year=1978 |page=68 | oclc=4331192 |quote= Cf. E. Steinmann, Ghirlandaio, Leipzig, 1897, pp. 18-21, and pl. 10 and 13, who recognizes, among the members of the Florentine colony in Rome, Argyropoulos and Giovanni Tornabuoni.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author= Burnell, Frederic Spencer |title=Rome |publisher=Longmans, Green & co |year=1930 |page=217 |oclc=7141638 |quote= We may perhaps recognize, in the group on the right, the bearded head of the famous Greek scholar, Argyropoulos, and, immediately to the left, the wealthy banker, Giovanni Tornabuoni}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author1=Marle, Raimond van |author2=Marle, Charlotte van |title= The development of the Italian schools of painting, Volume 13 |publisher= M. Nijhoff |year= 1923 |page= 30 | oclc=162830458 |quote= Among the portraits Herr Steinmann has succeeded in recognizing the Greek, Jean Argyropoulos, commentator of Aristotle, who is the old man with a long beard, the papal treasurer, Giovanni Tornabuoni ... he is the clean-shaven man to the right of Argyropoulos while the oldest of the three boys might be Lorenzo, the son of Giovanni Tornabuoni. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author= Davies, Gerald Stanley |title=Ghirlandaio |publisher=Methuen and co |year=1909 |page= 53 |oclc=192133437 |quote=Next to him a greybearded man with a flat hat, seen only head and shoulders, is with tolerable certainty recognised as the Greek humanist, Johannes Argyropulos, the translator into Italian of Aristotle. He had been invited by Cosimo dei Medici }}</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Argyropoulos_%28detail%29_Calling_of_the_Apostles.JPG)
John Argyropoulos (; ''Ioannis Argyropoulos''; ; surname also spelt ''Argyropulus'', or ''Argyropulos'', or ''Argyropulo''; c. 1415 – 26 June 1487) was a lecturer, philosopher and humanist, one of the émigré Greek scholars who pioneered the revival of classical Greek learning in 15th century Italy.He translated Greek philosophical and theological works into Latin besides producing rhetorical and theological works of his own. He was in Italy for the Council of Florence during 1439–1444, and returned to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople, teaching in Florence (at the Florentine Studium) in 1456–1470 and in Rome in 1471–1487. Provided by Wikipedia
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