Monfasani, John. 'Bessarion Scholasticus' : a study of Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library

Folger bibliographic ID: 271087
Folger call number: Z6623.B47 M66 2011
Folger holdings ID: 357222

Bessarion (d. 18 November 1472) first made a name for himself as one of the Greek spokesmen at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438-39. After becoming a cardinal, he several times entered conclaves as a serious candidate for the papacy. The library he bequeathed to the Republic of Venice, destined to become the historic core of the modern Biblioteca Marciana, is justly famous for its extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts. Celebrated in his own time for his patronage of humanists, he was also Italy's leading Platonist before the emergence of Marsilio Ficino. He always held in reverence his teacher in Greece, the Neoplatonist philosopher George Gemistus Pletho, and his In Calumniatorem Platonis, printed in Rome in 1469, was a pivotal text in the Plato-Aristotle controversy of the Renaissance

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes Bessarion (d. 18 November 1472) first made a name for himself as one of the Greek spokesmen at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438-39. After becoming a cardinal, he several times entered conclaves as a serious candidate for the papacy. The library he bequeathed to the Republic of Venice, destined to become the historic core of the modern Biblioteca Marciana, is justly famous for its extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts. Celebrated in his own time for his patronage of humanists, he was also Italy's leading Platonist before the emergence of Marsilio Ficino. He always held in reverence his teacher in Greece, the Neoplatonist philosopher George Gemistus Pletho, and his In Calumniatorem Platonis, printed in Rome in 1469, was a pivotal text in the Plato-Aristotle controversy of the Renaissance

Extended title: 'Bessarion Scholasticus' : a study of Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library / John Monfasani
Alternate titles: Bessarion Scholasticus : a study of Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library

Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403-1472 Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) Manuscripts, Latin Latin philology Biblioteca nazionale marciana

author: Monfasani, John
subject: Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403-1472
subject: Biblioteca nazionale marciana