Bessarion, Johannes

Japanese: ベッサリオン（英語表記）Bessarion， Johannes

Born: circa 1400, Trebizond
Died November 19, 1472. A humanist and theologian from Ravenna Bishopric. Later he was called Basileus. He became Archbishop of Nicaea in 1437. He attended the Council of Ferrara and Florence, which attempted to unite the Eastern and Western Churches, but his opinion in favor of union was rejected by the Byzantine Church. He remained in Italy, converted to Catholicism, and was appointed cardinal in 1439. In addition to his main work, In calumniatorem Platonis (Against the Defamers of Plato), he also translated Aristotle's Metaphysics and Xenophon's Reminiscences of Socrates into Latin. The oldest Homeric manuscript handed down today is from his library.

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Japanese:

[生]1400頃.トレビゾンド
[没]1472.11.19. ラベンナ
ビザンチン出身の人文主義者，神学者。のちにバジレウス Basileusと呼ばれた。 1437年ニカイアの大主教。東西両教会合同をはかるフェララ・フィレンツェ公会議に出席したが，合同を支持する彼の意見はビザンチン教会に拒絶された。そのままイタリアに残り，カトリックに改宗，39年枢機卿に任命された。主著『プラトン誹謗者に駁して』 In calumniatorem Platonisのほかアリストテレスの『形而上学』，クセノフォンの『ソクラテスの思い出』のラテン語訳がある。今日伝わる最古のホメロス写本は彼の蔵書に含まれていたものである。

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