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Bessarion

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Gender Male
Death552 years ago
Date of birth January 2,1403
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Trabzon
DiedRavenna
Italy
BooksLiber Defensionum Contra Obiectiones in Platonem: Cardinal Bessarion's Own Latin Translation of His Greek Defense of Plato Against George of Trebizond
Date of died November 18,1472
Full nameBasilius Bessarion
Place of burialBasilica dei Santi XII Apostoli, Rome, Italy
EraRenaissance philosophy
Successors Pietro Riario
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Bessarion was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the so-called great revival of letters in the 15th century.

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