LASCARIS, CONSTANTINE, an eminent Greek scholar of the fifteenth century, was a member of the royal house of Lascaris, and was born at Constantinople, but in what year is not known. When the Turks became masters of that city in 1453, he sought an asylum in Italy, where Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan entrusted him with the education of his daughter Hippolyta, afterwards married to Alfonso, King of Naples. On leaving Milan, he went first to Rome and afterwards to Naples, in both of which cities he taught Greek and rhetoric. A few years later, when on a visit to Messina, he was so cordially received by the inhabitants that he determined to settle there. The school which he established enjoyed a great reputation till his death in 1493. Among his pupils was the celebrated Bembo. Lascaris bequeathed his library and valuable MSS. to the senate of Messina. They were afterwards carried off to Spain, and are now preserved in the Royal Library of the Escurial. His published works are—Grammatica Graeca, sive Compendium octo Orationis partium, Milan, 1476, in 4to, being the first book printed in Greek; Two Opuscula on the Sicilians and Calabrese, who had written in Greek, published, for the first time, by Maurolico in 1562. A Dissertation on Orpheus, printed in the first volume of the Marmora Taurinensia, from a manuscript in the library of the King of Sardinia. These works, though now of little value, were useful in their day, by reviving the study of the Greek tongue in countries where it had long been dead.