Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Bessarion and Other Emigrés

Variorum
John Monfasani
ISBN: 0860784770
price: $127.95   hardcover

In Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy, Professor Monfasani makes a very significant contribution to our knowledge of the activity of Byzantine emigrés in Renaissance Italy, and of the impact of Byzantine culture on Latin rhetoric, science and philosophy.
Contents: Preface; 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's invective against NiccolÚ 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; Index Manuscriptorum et Documentorum.