Cardinal Bessarion and the transmission and interpretation of Plato in the fifteenth century

Cardinal Bessarion came from his native Byzantium and settled in Rome in the mid fifteenth century. He was a Basilian monk and, at the time, a Greek Archbishop. His cultural background was in the rationalist tradition of Greek theology. As the Byzantine Empire succumbed to the invading Turks he made...

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Main Author: Malone-Lee, Michael
Other Authors: Wilson, Nigel ; Heyworth, Stephen ; Gertz, Sebastian ; Wilson, Nigel
Published: University of Oxford 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711960