"Bessarion Scholasticus" : a study of Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library /

"Bessarion Scholasticus" : a study of Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library /

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Author / Creator:	Monfasani, John.
Imprint:	Turnhout : Brepols, 2011.
Description:	xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Byzantios, studies in Byzantine history and civilization ; 3 Byzantios ; 3.
Subject:	Bēssariōn, -- Cardinal, -- 1403-1472 -- Library. Bēssariōn, -- Cardinal, -- 1403-1472. Biblioteca nazionale marciana. Biblioteca nazionale marciana. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- Venice. Humanism -- Italy. Scholasticism. Humanism. Libraries. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) Scholasticism. Italy. Italy -- Venice.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8913386

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Varying Form of Title:	Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library
ISBN:	9782503541549 2503541542
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-277) and index.
Summary:	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.

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Call Number:	Z6623.B47 M66 2011
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