TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monfasani,John
TI  - 'Bessarion Scholasticus': a study of Cardinal Bessarion's Latin library 
T2  - Byzantios, studies in Byzantine history and civilization
SN  - 9782503541549
AV  - Z6621.B55463 M66 2011
U1  - 940.1 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Turnhout
PB  - Brepols
KW  - B��ssari��n,
KW  - Biblioteca nazionale marciana
KW  - Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Scholasticism
N1  - Include bibliography and Index
; Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-277) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -