1st Edition
Cardinal Bessarion (1403–1472) Most Latin of Greeks, Most Greek of Latins
By Michael Malone-Lee
Copyright 2024
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Roman cardinal, a papal diplomat, and an eminent humanist and scholar.
Cardinal Bessarion’s life and career were shaped by the tidal wave of the advance of the Ottoman Turks towards... Read more
- Introduction
- From Trebizond to Byzantium
- The Road to Florence
- The Roman Years
- Legate in Bologna
- The Threat of the Ottoman Turks
- Last Years
- Scholar and Humanist
- Bibliography
Biography
Michael Malone-Lee took an undergraduate degree in classics at Oxford University. He had a career of nearly thirty years in the British civil service where he served in senior positions in several departments of state. He later became Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University. In retirement he returned to classics and did a doctorate at Oxford University on Cardinal Bessarion and the transmission of Plato in the fifteenth century. Until recently he was teaching undergraduates Latin and Greek.
