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in the Opuscula Aurea Theologica of the latter, by Allatius (Diatriba de Georgiis, p. 392, and
Rome, 1649: a Latin version appears in the Con- De Consensu Ecclesiae, Occident. et Orient., lib. iii.
cilia (col. 1227, &c., Labbe). 5. Epistola Cathio- c. iii. p. 937.) 18. Ad Teiomae PalaeologiFiliorun,
lica sine Encyclica ad Graecos Ecclesiae CPolitanae Paedagogum Epistola. Thomas Palaeologus, despot
subjectos de praestanda Romanae Ecclesiae Obedi- of the Morea, and brother of the last Byzantine
entia, Synodique Florentinae Decretis admittendis, et Emperor, Constantine XIII., when driven out of
de sua in Patriarcham, CPolitanum Electione. This the Morea by the Turks, fled with his wife and
letter, noticed in our biographical sketch, was also children to Rome, where he was much indebted to.
published by Arcudio with a double version, one the good offices of Bessarion, who, upon his death,
by himself; and one by Bessarion. A Latin ver- continued his friendly care towards his orphan
sion, apparently of this letter, as it is entitled children. The letter of Bessarion was printed by
Epistola- ad Graecos, was printed with a version Meursius, with the Opuscula of Hesychius of
of the work on the eucharist mentioned below at Miletus [HEsYcHIus, No. 9.], Leyden, A. D. 161] 3.
Strasburg, 4to. A. D. 1513. (Panzer, vol. vi. 62.) A 19. Ad Ducem et Senatum Venetum de Bibliothecae
Latin version also is given by Raynald, Annal. Ec- suae Donatione Epistola. This Latin letter is
clesiast. ad ann. 1463, c. lviii. &c. 6. Apologia printed in the Historia Rerum Venetiarumn of Jusadversus Gregorium Palamam pro Jo. Fecei, Patri- tiniani, at the end of the eighth book. 20. Monodia
archae CPolitani Libro adversus Responsiones Grae- in Obitum Manuelis Palaeologi Imperatoris. A
corum de Processione Spiritus Sancti. This work, Latin version of this Monody by Niccolo Perotti.
with a Latin version, was published by Arcudio. 7. is given in the Annales Ecelesiastici of Bzovius, vol.
Responsio ad quatzor Argumenta Maximi Planudae xviii. p. 72, &c. 21. Orationes Quatuor ad Italos.
de Processione Spiritus Sancti ex solo Patre: pub- Three of these orations, designed to rouse the stateslished, with a Latin version, by Arcudio. 8. Grae- and princes of Western Europe against the Turks,
corum Confessio de Verbis Consecrationis, et Transub- were published at Paris, A. D. 1471, and apparently
stantiatione. A Latin version of this, by Niccolo a second time in A. D. 1500 (Panzer, vol. ii. p.
Sagundino, is contained in the Museum Italicum of 332), and the whole four in the second volume of
Mabillon, vol. i. part ii. p. 243, &c. 9. De Sancto the Consultationes atque Orationes Turcicae of Ni-.
Eucharistiae Mysterio, et quod per Verba Domini colas Reusner. An Italian version, we know not
maxime fiat Consecratio, contra Allarcum Ephesium; whether of the three or four, was printed, probably
or, De Sacramento Eucharistiae, et quibus Verbis at Venice, A.D. 1471. (Panzer, vol. iii. p. 80.) 22..
Christi Corpus conficiatur. A Latin version of this Ad Ludoviem Francorum Regem de sua Electione
was published, as we have noticed above, at Stras- in Legatum ad ipsum et Pucem Burgundiae, pubburg, A. D. 1513; and also at Nuremburg, A. D. lished in the Spicilegium of D'Achery, vol. iv. Paris,
1527. (Panzer, vol. vii. p. 473). One appears in 1661. 23. Various Epistolae and Orationes, in-.
the Bibliotheca Patrum (vol. xxvi. p. 787, &c. ed. eluding apparently some of those already noticed,
Lyon. 1677). 10. De ea Parte Evangelii,' Si eum in 1 vol. 4to., without note of place or year of pubvolo manere', kc., erudita et valde utilis Disceptatio, lication, but known to have been printed by Guil.
printed with the Dialoge of Salonius, of Vienna, Fitchet, Paris, about 1470 or 1472. (Panzer, vol.;
4to. Haguenau, 1532, Panzer, vol. vii. p. 109. 11. ii. p. 271.)
Ad Paulum II. P. M. Epistola, qua suas de Pro- His versions into Latin were of the following
cessione Spiritus Sancti lucubrationes ei alfert et works: 1. Xenophontis de Dictis et Factis Socratis,
dicat; and, 12. Ad Paulum II. P. M. de Errore Libri IV, printed in various editions of Xenophon,
Paschatis. These two letters are inserted in the and separately in 4to, at Louvain, A. D. 1533. 2.
Latina et Italica D. Marci Bibliotheca Codd. MSto- Aristotelis Ml]etaphysicorsum Libri XI V, repeatedly.
rum per Titulos Digesta, of Zanetti. Fol. Venice, printed. 3. Theophrasti lMetaphysica, repeatedly.
1741, pp. 76, 196. printed, subjoined to his version of the Metaphysica
II. PHILOSOPHICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS of Aristotle. 4. Basilii Magni Oratio in illud,
WORKS: 13. In Calumniatorem Platonis, Libri'Attende tibi ipsi;' et Homilia in Cshristi Natalem.
V.; a reply in Latin to the Comparationes Philoso- These homilies are extant only in MS. The ver-,
phorum Platonis et Aristotelis of George of Tre- sions of Aristotle and Theophrastus are contained,
bizond. [GEORGIUS, No. 48, TRAPEZUNTIUS.] with the work In Calumniatorers Platonis, in a,
Bessarion's work was first printed at Rome by volume published by Aldus, Venice, 1516. (Aloy-.
Sweynheym and Pannartz, A. D. 1469.. 14. De sius Bandinius, De Vita et Rebus Gestis Bessarionis
Natura et Arte adversus eundem Trapezuntium. Cardinalis Nicaeni Commentarius, 4to, Rome, 1777;
This work, written some time before the pre- Hody, De Graecis Illustribus Linguae Graecae, Wkc.
ceding, was printed with it as a sixth book. 15. Instauratoribus; Boerner, De Doctis Hominibus:
Ad Plethonem de Qwutuos- Quaestionibus Platonicis Graecis; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 422, &c.;
Epistola; written in Greek, and printed with a Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. Appendix by Gery and
Latin version by Reimar, Leyden, A. D. 1722, Wharton, pp. 138, 139; Oudin, Commentar. de
from a MS. in the Bodleian Library. 16. Ad Scriptor. Eccles. vol. iii. col. 2411, &c.; Niceron,
Michaelesm Apostolium et Andronicum Callistum Mgmoires, vol. xxi. p. 129; Ducas, Hist. Byzant.
Epistolae. In these letters he severely reprehends c. xxxi.; Phranza, Philelphus Epistolae, Labbe,
Apostolius for the violent attack which he had Concilia, Mansi Concilia, 11. cc.; Panzer, Annales
made on Theodore Gaza, and commends Callistus, Typographici (ll. cc. and vol. ii. p. 411, vol. viii.'
who had replied in a moderate and decent manner pp. 363, 434); Laonicus Chalcocondyles, Historia
to the attack of Apostolius. The letters of Bes- Turcarum, vol. vi. viii. pp. 155, 228, ed. Paris, pp.,
sarion were published by Boivin in his Historia 121, 178, ed.Venice; Nic. Comnenus Papadopoli,
Academiace Regiae Inscriptionumn, vol. ii. p. 456. Hist. Gymnas. Patauini, vol. ii. lib. ii. c. 8, p. 171.):17. Ad Demetriusm et Andronicum Plethoens Filios, 22. CALECAS. [CALECAS.]
Epistola. This letter, written to the sons of George 23. CAMATERUS. [CAMATERUS.]
Gemistus after their father's death, was published 24. CAMENIATA. [CAMRENIATA.]