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 1  9,9 |           humanity.”[235] Cardinal Bessarion, mourning the fall of the
 2  9,15|   convinced opponent of the union; Bessarion, the gifted and highly educated
 3  9,18|          of the fifteenth century, Bessarion of Nicaea.~ John Beccus,
 4  9,18|           belonged also the famous Bessarion of Nicaea, member of the
 5  9,18|            the union as Cydones or Bessarion. Gregory of Cyprus (his
 6  9,18|           example an essay against Bessarion, which justify including
 7  9,18|         fifteenth century, such as Bessarion of Nicaea and Gemistus Plethon,
 8  9,19| Chrysoloras, Gemistus Plethon, and Bessarion of Nicaea.~ Born in Constantinople
 9  9,19|  Renaissance, Gemistus Plethon and Bessarion of Nicaea. The former was
10  9,19|        philosophy in the West, and Bessarion was a man of first importance
11  9,19|    cultural movement of the time.~ Bessarion was born at the very beginning
12  9,19|            in Constantinople, made Bessarion acquainted with the humanistic
13  9,19|          taking the monastic habit Bessarion continued his studies in
14  9,19|         negotiations toward union. Bessarion wrote during the council, “
15  9,19|          return to Constantinople, Bessarion soon realized that, because
16  9,19|       Italy.~ At Rome the house of Bessarion became a center of humanistic
17  9,19|     friends. Valla in reference to Bessarion’s excellent knowledge of
18  9,19|           or ordering copies made, Bessarion collected an excellent library
19  9,19|      entrance door the portrait of Bessarion may be still seen.~ Another
20  9,19|            fall of Constantinople, Bessarion wrote immediately to the
21  9,19|       understand any other reason. Bessarion died at Ravenna in 1472,
22  9,19|         Rome for a solemn burial.~ Bessarion’s literary activity was
23  9,19|           of polemic and exegesis, Bessarion left translations of some
24  9,19|     humanist. An admirer of Plato, Bessarion in his work Against Plato’
25  9,19|       short time ago was published Bessarion’s long Encomium (Eulogy)
26  9,19|    historical point of view.[472]~ Bessarion presents, as his French
27  9,19|         Renaissance sprang forth. “Bessarion lived on the threshold between
28  9,19|           of the contemporaries of Bessarion, Michael Apostolius (Apostolios),
29  9,19|             full of enthusiasm for Bessarion’s personality and talent,
30  9,19|            his funeral oration for Bessarion he wrote: “[Bessarion] was
31  9,19|          for Bessarion he wrote: “[Bessarion] was the reflection of divine
32  9,19|         true wisdom.”[474] Many of Bessarion’s writings are still not
33  9,19|         talented men as Plethon or Bessarion, who opened new horizons