Note 88 — BOOK VI[60]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Johannes Cardinal Bessarion (1395-1472), Archbishop of Nicæa (1437), a cardinal (1439), Archbishop of Siponto and Bishop of Sabina and Tusculum, and Patriarch of Constantinople (1463). Bessarion was a disciple of Plethon and author of, among many other works of Platonic philosophy, the famous Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis (1469).—T.