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== Life == Most of our knowledge of Xanthopoulos' biography comes from the opening of his ecclesiastical history. The preface says that he began working on his history at age thirty-six.{{Sfn|Neville|2018|p=260}} Nicephorus was trained in the florid, rhetorical style of Renaissance Byzantine historiography. He became a priest at [[Hagia Sophia]] and thus gained access to the patriarchal library. He also gave lessons in [[rhetoric]] and [[theology]] for which he prepared many new ''[[progymnasmata]]'' (exercises). Xanthopoulos was a friend of [[Theodore Metochites|Theodoros Metochites]], who dedicated his ''Poem 12'' to him. During his later years it is possible that he became a [[monk]].{{Sfn|Kazhdan|1991|p=2207}}
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