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    Basilios). He took the name Bessarion upon entering the monastery. He has been mistakenly known also as Johannes Bessarion (Italian: Giovanni Bessarione)...
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    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...
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    Basilios Bessarion came to Vienna on a diplomatic mission. Being a humanist scholar with a great interest in the mathematical sciences, Bessarion sought...
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    establishing a more modern understanding of mathematics. In 1460, Cardinal Johannes Bessarion, while visiting Frederick's court seeking assistance in a crusade...
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  • of the pioneers in introducing Greek literature to western Europe Johannes Bessarion, bishop and cardinal Marcus Musurus, professor of Greek language at...
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  • Berzelius (1779–1848) WGPSN Bessarion 14°51′N 37°19′W / 14.85°N 37.31°W / 14.85; -37.31 (Bessarion) 9.84 1935 Johannes Bessarion (c. 1369 – 1472) WGPSN...
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    Venetian fortress of Argos in Greece. The Latin Patriarch Cardinal Johannes Bessarion traveled to Venice to call on the Republic to join the "defense of...
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  • pulpit. Bussi was a Platonist and a friend of Nicholas Cusanus and Johannes Bessarion, in whose philosophical circle he moved. From 1458 to the Cardinal's...
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    Nilos Kabasilas → Demetrios Kydones → Gemistos Plethon → Basilios BessarionJohannes Regiomontanus → Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara → Nicolaus (Mikołaj...
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  • measurement the cicero. 1468 31 May – The Byzantine scholar Cardinal Basilios Bessarion donates his library to the Republic of Venice, the foundation of the Biblioteca...
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    influence on the exegesis of the New Testament itself through Cardinal Bessarion's inspiration of Lorenzo Valla's biblical emendations of the Latin vulgate...
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    philosophically a Platonist. He readily entered into live controversies, defending Bessarion against charges of heresy, entering the Plato–Aristotle controversy, debating...
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  • Theodorus Gaza (c.1400–1475) (Greek) Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1469) (German) Bessarion (1403–1472) (Greek) Gregory of Sanok (1403/07–1477) (Polish) Aeneas Sylvius...
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    Bonne of Bohemia. His third marriage, arranged by the future cardinal, Bessarion, was to Maria of Trebizond in 1427. She was a daughter of Alexios IV of...
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    à Lapide, Jean La Pierre (Lapierre, de la Pierre), Johannes Lapideus, Johannes Lapidanus, Johannes de Lapide (c. 1425 – 12 March 1496) was a German-born...
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    was continued by a number of expatriate Greek scholars, from Basilios Bessarion to Leo Allatius. The unique political structures of Italy during the Late...
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    Manuscript copy of the Liber de Causis from c. 1470. This copy once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion and is now in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice....
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    consulting a Greek manuscript brought from Constantinople by Cardinal Bessarion. When it was published in 1496, the Epitome of the Almagest made the highest...
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    Father Isidore of Ruthenia, Cardinal, Written to the Most Reverend Lord Bessarion Bishop of Tusculum and Cardinal of Nicaea and Bologna]" (in Latin). Letter...
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    Saccano, he settled in Messina (Sicily). On the recommendation of Cardinal Bessarion, he was appointed to succeed Andronikos Galaziotes to teach Greek to the...
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  • Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) November 18 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1403) December 11 – Margaret of...
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    (1495) and Johannes Baptista Chrestonius's dictionary (1499), expanding his studies of antiquity, begun at Bologna, to the writings of Bessarion, Lorenzo...
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  • Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932)[4] Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972)[2] Bessarion (1403–1472)[5] Bhartrhari (5th century)[4] Gabriel Biel (1425–1495)[2][4]...
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    the resources to amass important libraries. Such was Cardinal Basilios Bessarion, a convert to the Catholic Church from Greek Orthodoxy, who was considered...
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    and Prose Medieval Latin 52 Two Works on Trebizond: Michael Panaretos, Bessarion Byzantine Greek 51 Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad Medieval Latin 50...
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  • library of Bessarion, Schreiner's investigation shows it had been owned in the later 15th century (during Bessarion's lifetime) by Johannes Zacharias;...
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    1375) Petrus, O.Carm. (1375 – 1381) Avignon Obedience Johannes (1381 – 1386) Roman Obedience Johannes (1386 – 1398) Roman Obedience Nicolaus (1398 – 1402)...
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    feudal hierarchy. Nelson H. Minnich, "Alexios Celadenus: A Disciple of Bessarion in Renaissance Italy", Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques...
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    Giordano Orsini (1431–1438) Branda da Castiglione (1440–1443) Basilios Bessarion (1449) Amedeo di Savoia (1449–1451), served as antipope Felix V 1439–1449...
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    Trebizond did pride themselves on their Laz origins to some degree. Bessarion's history of Trebizond during the sixth century only works if you identify...
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