CIPARISSIOTA, GIOVANNI. — Byzantine writer of the 14th century, also known by the title “the Wise.” He left two celebrated works, one of which remains almost entirely unpublished: namely, the Palamite Transgressions (Paris ms. 1246), published in part by Combefis (Auctarium novissimum, II, 68–105; PG 152, 633–738). The Expositio elementaris eorum quae a theologis de Deo dicuntur was edited and translated by Turrianus (PG 152, 741–992) from a manuscript in Messina. C. polemicizes with rare skill against the errors of the Palamite (V. chiese 1945; in Italian: M. Voros, Pécs, Budapest 1942. [Gregorio Deneus]
BIBL.: M. Jugie, Theologia dogmatica orientalium christianorum, I, Paris 1926, pp. 481–82.