Basileios or Basilios). He took the name Bessarion upon entering the monastery. He has been mistakenly known also as Johannes Bessarion (Italian: Giovanni...

Gregoras, and to some extent Trapezuntines such as John Lazaropoulos and Basilios Bessarion, regarded the emperors of Trebizond as the "princes of the Lazes"...

legate Basilios Bessarion came to Vienna on a diplomatic mission. Being a humanist scholar with a great interest in the mathematical sciences, Bessarion sought...

assigned to a famous Greek humanist, theologian and scholar, Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. The Cardinal's surviving correspondence shows that the Pope took...

Pletho, and went with his teacher and two of Pletho's other students, Bessarion and Mark Eugenikos, to attend the Council of Ferrara, which was intended...

Saint Bessarion of Egypt, also Bessarion the Great or Passarion, Egyptian anchorite, thaumaturge and abbot, pupil of Saint Anthony the Great Basilios Bessarion...

Piccolomini James Faulkner as Guillaume d'Estouteville Rolf Kanies as Basilios Bessarion Holger Kunkel as Alain de Coëtivy Peter Guinness as Latino Orsini...

inscriptions recording monks and priests of the college, including cardinal Basilios Bessarion, commendatory abbot of Grottaferrata, who was made a cardinal by pope...

Hungary Anna Komnene Maria of Alania Empress Irene Leo the Deacon Basilios Bessarion Michael Attaleiates Patriarch Nicholas III of Constantinople John...

cardinal already receiving votes. The early defeat of Greek Cardinal Basilios Bessarion—a potential compromise candidate between the Colonna and Orsini factions—is...

thinkers to compare contemporaneous theories with classical Greek texts. Basilios Bessarion and George of Trebizond travelled to Italy and taught and published...

Palamas → Nilos Kabasilas → Demetrios Kydones → Gemistos Plethon → Basilios Bessarion → Johannes Regiomontanus → Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara → Nicolaus...

(1424–1427) Giordano Orsini (1431–1438) Branda da Castiglione (1440–1443) Basilios Bessarion (1449) Amedeo di Savoia (1449–1451), served as antipope Felix V 1439–1449...

Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo by Simplicius. This 14th-century manuscript is signed by a former owner, Basilios Bessarion....

with a copy of the Almagest, by the Byzantine Greek scholar cardinal Basilios Bessarion with whom he lived for several years. At the same time, another translation...

in 1485. One of the main Byzantine supporters of the church union, Basilios Bessarion (d. 1472), aroused Italian scholarly interest in Greek studies during...

of the entire text of the Philokalia is directly quoted from it. Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), a Greek refugee who fled to Italy after the Fall of Constantinople...

Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) November 18 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1403) December 11 – Margaret...

with the resources to amass important libraries. Such was Cardinal Basilios Bessarion, a convert to the Catholic Church from Greek Orthodoxy, who was considered...

Panaretos George Amiroutzes Gregory Choniades George of Trebizond Basilios Bessarion Ioannis Amanatidis (footballer) George Andreadis (novelist) Peter...

Greek migration. The first entailed Greek intellectuals, such as Basilios Bessarion, Georgius Plethon Gemistos and Marcos Mousouros, migrating to other...

theologian Evagrius Ponticus (345–399 AD), Greek theologian and monk Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), Greek scholar, Roman Catholic cardinal and titular Latin...

King of Nanzan, in present-day south Okinawa, Japan. January 2 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1472) February 22 – King Charles...

of Constantinople in 1453, Kallistos went to Italy where he joined Basilios Bessarion. He taught in Bologna (1464), Rome (1469), Florence, Paris and London...

discussion was the house of the Cardinal and Byzantine Greek exile Basilios Bessarion, which itself has come to be referred to as an academia (academy)...

anti-Catholic gesture was well recognised in mid-Tudor England. Basilios Bessarion's beard contributed to his defeat in the papal conclave of 1455. Pope...

Capranica (1438) Prospero Colonna (1439) Guillaume d'Estouteville (1440) Basilios Bessarion (1441) Niccolo d'Acciapaccio (1442) Giovanni Berardi (1443) Albert...

Catholic Church Diocese Diocese of Mazara del Vallo In office 1415–1448 Successor Basilios Bessarion Personal details Died 1448 Mazara del Vallo, Italy...

legacy was continued by a number of expatriate Greek scholars, from Basilios Bessarion to Leo Allatius. The unique political structures of Italy during the...

measurement the cicero. 1468 31 May – The Byzantine scholar Cardinal Basilios Bessarion donates his library to the Republic of Venice, the foundation of the...