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Arsenios Apostolis (Aristoboulos to his layman’s name), the son of the scholar Michael Apostolis, was a post-Byzantine scholar and philosopher and a Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Monemvasia. He moved to Italy were he became acquainted with the cycle of the printer Aldus Manutius. He was more interested in philosophy than theology and he was more influenced by the historiographical tradition of Diogenes Laertius than by Aristotelian philosophy. Arsenios wrote appeals to prominent political figures in Western Europe exhorting them to undertake a Crusade in order to liberate Greece.
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Arabatzis, G. (2022). Apostolis, Arsenios. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_16
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