Giacomo or Jacopo d'Angelo, also surnamed De Scarperia,, better known by his Latin name Jacobus Angelus, was an Italian classical scholar, humanist, and translator of ancient Greek texts during the Renaissance.
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![Manuel Chrysoloras, renowned professor of Greek in medieval Italy,[1] portrayed by Paolo Uccello in 1408. Drawing currently preserved in the Louvre Museum, Paris.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Manuel-chrysoloras-paolo-uccello-louvre-15th.jpg/1280px-Manuel-chrysoloras-paolo-uccello-louvre-15th.jpg)
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Giacomo or Jacopo d'Angelo, also surnamed De Scarperia,, better known by his Latin name Jacobus Angelus, was an Italian classical scholar, humanist, and translator of ancient Greek texts during the Renaissance. Named for the village of Scarperia in the Mugello in the Republic of Florence, he traveled to Venice where the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos' ambassador Manuel Chrysoloras was teaching Greek, the first scholar to hold such course in medieval Italy.
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