Bessarion
(1399/1400–1472)Born at Trebizond of a modest family, the young Bessarion was noticed by Metropolitan Dositheus, who took him with him to Constantinople in c.1415. There he studied Rhetoric and ...
George Scholarius
(c.1405–c.1472), Patr. of Constantinople. At the Council of Florence in 1439 he supported the scheme for reunion, but later he opposed all such projects. He became a monk c.1450, taking the name of ...
Marsilio Ficino
(1433–99),Italian humanist and philosopher, whose Neoplatonic views influenced Reuchlin and Colet and were an inspiration to many English poets, including Sidney and Milton.
