Byzantine scholars in Renaissance Italy : Cardinal Bessarion and other émigrés : selected essays

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Byzantine scholars in Renaissance Italy : Cardinal Bessarion and other émigrés : selected essays

John Monfasani

(Collected studies series, CS485)

Variorum, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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This work offers a detailed study of important Byzantine scholars and their work in Renaissance Italy. Among those covered are Il Perotti, Bassarion Latinus, Alexius Celadenus and Ottavia Ubaldini. Particular emphasis is placed on Bessarion and his Latin eulogists.

Table of Contents

  • Il perotti e la controversia tra platonici ed Aristotelici
  • Bessarion Latinus
  • still more on Bessarion Latinus
  • Bessarion, Valla, Agricola and Erasmus
  • the Bessarion missal revisited
  • Platina, Capranica and Perotti - Bessarion's Latin eulogists and his date of birth
  • testi inediti di Bessarione e Teodoro Gaza
  • Pletone, Bessarione e la processione dello Spirito Santo
  • un testo inedito e un falso
  • Alexius Celadenus and Ottaviano Ubaldini - an epilogue to Bessarion's relationship with the court of Urbino
  • Platonic paganism in the 15th century
  • in praise of Ognibene and blame of Guarino - Andronicus Contoblacas' invective against Niccolo Botano and the citizens of Brescia
  • l'insegnamento universitario e la cultura Bizantina in Italia nel quattrocento
  • a philosophical text of Andronicus Callistus misattributed to Nicholas Secundinus
  • the Byzantine rhetorical tradition and the Renaissance
  • corrigenda et addenda.

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