Showing posts with label Bessarion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bessarion. Show all posts
12 February 2015

Oh best and wisest of friends, or George and the wolves

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The best and wisest of friends, Nikeforos Prinkeps Cheilas, is one of the small group of intellectuals of mid-century Mistra, and p...
04 February 2015

The Eugenikos sons

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Two and a half years ago,  I wrote about the time  Pepagomenos left his sons with the Eugenikos family in Mistra when he and his wife...
03 December 2014

Bessarion's missing manuscript

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Bessarion's index to Marciana Gr Z 533 (coll 778). Five-thirty-three, as we call it here in this house (feeling that “Gr Z” an...
23 July 2014

Pavane for a Dead Princess: Part Ten

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Text of the 1433 poem to Cleofe, in Marciana Gr Z 533 (coll. 778)  f. 48b, a collection of personal documents put together by Bessario...
16 July 2014

Bessarion on the imperial hangers-on

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Bessarion's villa (possibly) at Rome near the Via Appia. In Bessarion's letter about arrangements for  Zoe, Andreas, and ...
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02 July 2014

Bessarion on educating the imperial children

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Early in 1465, Thomas Palaiologos directed that his children be sent from Corfù to Italy. He had gone to Italy in the winter of 1460....
10 April 2014

The Maltese whelp

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In February of last year, I wrote an entry on Bessarion's Little White Dog  and used the two dog painting I have here. I think I...
19 February 2013

Bessarion's Little White Dog

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St. Augustine, Carpaccio, ca. 1504 In Carpaccio's painting of St. Augustine, at the instant when he becom es aware of the death ...
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