Free, John (c. 1430–1465)

English humanist author. In 1456 he went to Ferrara, Italy, to study with the humanist scholar Battista Guarino. He then travelled to Padua where he met John Tiptoft, future constable of England, to whom he dedicated a Latin translation of a minor Greek work, Synesius' Laus Calvitii/In Praise of Baldness (1461). He translated another piece by Synesius and presented it to Pope Paul II in 1464.