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    Basileios or Basilios). The name Bessarion he took when entering the monastery. He has been mistakenly known also as Johannes Bessarion (Italian: Giovanni...
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    Gregoras, and to some extent Trapezuntines such as John Lazaropoulos and Basilios Bessarion, regarded the emperors of Trebizond as the "princes of the Lazes"...
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    legate 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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  • Saint Bessarion of Egypt, also Bessarion the Great or Passarion, Egyptian anchorite, thaumaturge and abbot, pupil of Saint Anthony the Great Basilios Bessarion...
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  • Piccolomini James Faulkner as Guillaume d'Estouteville Rolf Kanies as Basilios Bessarion Holger Kunkel as Alain de Coëtivy Peter Guinness as Latino Orsini...
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    assigned to a famous Greek humanist, theologian and scholar, Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. The Cardinal's surviving correspondence shows that the Pope took...
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    cardinal already receiving votes. The early defeat of Greek Cardinal Basilios Bessarion—a potential compromise candidate between the Colonna and Orsini factions—is...
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    inscriptions recording monks and priests of the college, including cardinal Basilios Bessarion, commendatory abbot of Grottaferrata, who was made a cardinal by pope...
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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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  • Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394) November 18 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1403) December 11 – Margaret...
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    Palamas → Nilos Kabasilas → Demetrios Kydones → Gemistos Plethon → Basilios Bessarion → Johannes Regiomontanus → Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara → Nicolaus...
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    thinkers to compare contemporaneous theories with classical Greek texts. Basilios Bessarion and George of Trebizond travelled to Italy and taught and published...
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  • King of Nanzan, in present-day south Okinawa, Japan. January 2 – Basilios Bessarion, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1472) February 22 – King Charles...
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    (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...
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  • Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo by Simplicius. This 14th-century manuscript is signed by a former owner, Basilios Bessarion....
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    in 1485. One of the main Byzantine supporters of the church union, Basilios Bessarion (d. 1472), aroused Italian scholarly interest in Greek studies during...
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  • of Constantinople in 1453, Kallistos went to Italy where he joined Basilios Bessarion. He taught in Bologna (1464), Rome (1469), Florence, Paris and London...
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  • 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)...
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    Panaretos George Amiroutzes Gregory Choniades George of Trebizond Basilios Bessarion Ioannis Amanatidis (footballer) George Andreadis (novelist) Peter...
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    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...
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  • Hungary Anna Komnene Maria of Alania Empress Irene Leo the Deacon Basilios Bessarion Michael Attaleiates Patriarch Nicholas III of Constantinople John...
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    theologian Evagrius Ponticus (345–399 AD), Greek theologian and monk Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), Greek scholar, Roman Catholic cardinal and titular Latin...
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  • Renaissance scholar and philosopher, a servant of Sultan Mehmed II Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), a Catholic Cardinal Bishop and the titular Latin Patriarch...
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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...
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    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...
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    with 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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    Greek migration. The first entailed Greek intellectuals, such as Basilios Bessarion, Georgius Plethon Gemistos and Marcos Mousouros, migrating to other...
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  • Capranica (1438) Prospero Colonna (1439) Guillaume d'Estouteville (1440) Basilios Bessarion (1441) Niccolo d'Acciapaccio (1442) Giovanni Berardi (1443) Albert...
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    – 14 January 1380) Pietro Filargis (12 June 1405 – 26 June 1409) Basilios Bessarion (8 January 1440 – 18 November 1472) Clemente Grosso della Rovere (6...
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    elected Pope Paul II. In August 1465, Eroli, along with Cardinals Basilios Bessarion and Juan Carvajal was part of a commission sent to the Kingdom of...
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