LEONARDO di CHIO. - Dominican, b. on Chios in 1395 or 1396, d. in 1459 probably at Genoa. He studied in Italy, was lector at Genoa and at Perugia (1426), master in theology, vicar general of the Congregation of the Pilgrim Friars (1428 [?]-31), inquisitor in the Levant, archbishop of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, under the lordship of the Gattilusi, Genoese (1444, 1 July).

There he wrote a dialogue De vera nobilitate (1446). Dorino I Gattilusio, lord of Mytilene, sent him as ambassador to Genoa (1449). In 1452 he accompanied Cardinal legate Isidore of Kiev to Constantinople. Having escaped from the sack of the city, he wrote a celebrated account of that siege (1453). He was then ambassador in the West of Niccolò Gattilusio (1458). Besides the opuscules mentioned, a few sermons of his survive.

Bibliography

BIBL.: R. Loenertz, La société des Frères Pérégrinants, (Institutum historicum FF. Prædicatorum. Dissertatione historicae, 7), I, Rome 1937, pp. 66-70. Raimondo G. Loenertz

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