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    Bessarion (Greek: Βησσαρίων; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the...
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  • dictionary. Bessarion was a Byzantine Greek scholar who became a Roman Catholic cardinal and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. Bessarion can also refer...
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    of the College of Cardinals (Latin: Decanus Collegii Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalium) presides over the College of Cardinals in the Catholic Church...
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    George Acropolites, historian George Metochites, deacon Bessarion, Cardinal Isidore of Kiev, Cardinal Theodorus Gaza, scholar Gregory III of Constantinople...
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    too, and a few minutes later Cardinal Bessarion congratulated Piccolomini on his unanimous election to the papacy. Cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini accepted...
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  • abbot, pupil of Saint Anthony the Great Basilios Bessarion (1403–1472), Greek scholar, Catholic cardinal and Latin patriarch of Constantinople Visarion...
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    by Carlo Ginzburg, the painting would be in fact an invitation by Cardinal Bessarion to Federico da Montefeltro to take part in the crusade. The young...
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  • position in a public debate over future contingents alongside Cardinal Bessarion, Cardinal Francesco della Rovere, Giovanni Gatto and Fernando de Córdoba...
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    entered the service of Cardinal Bessarion. References to Fernando are scarce in the following decade. He was certainly with Bessarion in Bologna in 1452 and...
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    November 1444 in Varna, Ottoman Empire) was one of the group of brilliant cardinals appointed by Pope Martin V upon the conclusion of the Western Schism....
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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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  • Piccolomini James Faulkner as Guillaume d'Estouteville Rolf Kanies as Basilios Bessarion Holger Kunkel as Alain de Coëtivy Peter Guinness as Latino Orsini Nicholas...
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    emphasized Bessarion's former membership in the Eastern Orthodox Church and his retention of Greek mannerisms, such as a full beard. The French cardinal is reported...
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    April 1455, with fifteen cardinals in attendance including Cardinal Carvajal. Six cardinals were unable to attend. Cardinal Bessarion, it seems, was able to...
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    (1436–1442) Louis II de Luxembourg (1442–1443) Giuliano Cesarini (1444) Bessarion (1449–1468) Latino Orsini (1468–1477) Giacomo Ammannati-Piccolomini (1477–1479)...
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  • (1438) Prospero Colonna (1439) Guillaume d'Estouteville (1440) Basilios Bessarion (1441) Niccolo d'Acciapaccio (1442) Giovanni Berardi (1443) Albert d'Albret...
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  • Baloglou, "The Former Metropolitan of Nicaea Cardinal Bessarion and contemporary Greek bishops", in Bessarion from Trebizond of Pontos, ed. I. A. Glarenis...
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    priests of the college, including cardinal Basilios Bessarion, commendatory abbot of Grottaferrata, who was made a cardinal by pope Eugenius IV in 1439. The...
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    the city. The library was founded in 1468 when the humanist scholar Cardinal Bessarion, bishop of Tusculum and titular Latin patriarch of Constantinople...
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  • Metropolitan of Kiev, and related to Gregory Tsamblak and, apparently, Cardinal Bessarion. Alexandru Simon, How to Finance a Greek Rite Athlete: Venice, Rome...
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  • archbishop of Kiev – cardinal-priest of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, then cardinal-bishop of Sabina (7 February 1451), † 27 April 1463 Bessarion, archbishop of...
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  • Latino Orsini (category Cardinal-bishops of Albano)
    Latino Orsini (1411 – 11 August 1477) was an Italian Cardinal. Of the Roman branch of the Orsini family, he was the fourth child of Carlo and Paola Gironima...
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    Isidore of Kiev (category Cardinal-bishops of Sabina)
    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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    Cardinal Bessarion in Rome. In Rome, he seems to have joined the Conventual Franciscans, a better fit for a scholar. In 1472, following Bessarion's death...
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  • called Campanus (1429–1477), Neapolitan-born humanist, protégé of Cardinal Bessarion Giuseppe Campani (1635–1715), Italian optician and astronomer Luca...
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    Thomas (2013). Inter graecos latinissimus, inter latinos graecissimus: Bessarion zwischen den Kulturen. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. p. 108. ISBN 978-3-11-028265-8...
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    Jean Balue (redirect from Cardinal Balue)
    1470 Cardinal Balue was removed to Onzain on orders of Louis XI, but by 2 July 1472 he was being kept at Chinon. In May 1472 Cardinal Bessarion was sent...
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    October 1461, and became the Dean of the College of Cardinals after the death of Cardinal Bessarion on 18 November 1472. He took part in the Conclave of...
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    chapel of Cardinal Bessarion. Antoniazzo Romano completed the decoration in 1467. It contained a 15th-century Madonna donated by Bessarion, now relocated...
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    French, two Italians, two Germans, two Spaniards and the one Hungarian. Bessarion, d'Estouteville, Trevisan, Carvajal, Torquemada and Barbo were mentioned...
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