MANUELE of CORINTH. – Byzantine orator and theologian, born ca. 1460, died ca. 1550. He lived for almost 70 years in the service of the patriarchs of Constantinople and composed numerous theological, historical, hagiographical, and poetic works, the complete catalogue of which is found in A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus.
As an anti-Latin polemicist, he composed a treatise, still unpublished, on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, and another on Purgatory; in addition, a response against the conclusions of Fr. Francesco Predicatore, which is found in PG 140, 469 and was published in full by M. Gedeon in Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἀλήθεια, p. (1889), pp. 237–40; finally, a dissertation on Marco of Ephesus and the Council of Florence, edited by L. Petit in PO 18, 491–522.