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Ioannis Chortasmenos (ca. 1370–1431) was a scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and bibliophile; under the name Ignatios he became Metropolitan of Selymbria. He taught in Constantinople philosophy (logic) and rhetoric to major intellectuals of late Byzantium (Bessarion, Scholarios) and wrote compendiums and textbooks on these fields, especially on Aristotelian logic. He continued the commentary tradition of the Palaeologan Byzantium and he compiled introductory texts for educational purposes. As a bibliophile and a copist, he contributed to the circulation of philosophical and scientific texts.
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Zografidis, G. (2019). Chortasmenos, Ioannis. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_33-1
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