Surprised by Time

Mistra in shrouds. Photo by Stella Chrysochoou. The monody by Nikiforos Cheilas is the last of the four monodies delivere...

Demetrios Pepagomenos was the second of the four speakers at Cleofe's memorial. I have written about these monodies at other tim...

Angel, Ag. Nicholas, Mistra. I recently discussed Bessarion's monody,  one of four given at the  μνημόσυνον  for Cleofe Malates...

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...

Possibly Guillaume Dufay. Cleofe probably never had a pavane –it was a slightly later development of a dance form she knew -- bu...

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...

This image is the underdrawing, sinopia , for the fresco that I selected for an image of Cleofe   Malatesta Palaiologina.  I selected...