Liber Defensionum Contra Obiectiones in Platonem: Cardinal Bessarion's Own Latin Translation of His Greek Defense of Plato Against George of Trebizond

by Bessarion

In 1458 George of Trebizond transferred the Plato-Aristotle controversy from the Byzantine world to the Latin by publishing his Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis et Praestantia Aristotelis, a full-scale attack on Plato and the Platonic tradition from antiquity to the present day, ending with a violent diatribe on the dangers posed by the influence of Cardinal Bessarion's recently deceased teacher, George Gemistus Pletho. To respond,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111246353
• ISBN13: 9783111246352
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"