monks the good order, those in words directing the comprehensive knowledge, all those generously extending pleasures to everyone. O bitter grief, O bitter mist that has fallen upon the eyes of all, O rumor passing through the entire world, and filling everything with turbulence and loathsomeness and darkness! Now the Italians shall mourn, now the Celts shall weep, now the Gauls and Britons, now the Germans, and the Illyrians and Thracians and Paeonians, now the Iberians shall lament, now the Indians shall grow distraught, now every race and every age and islands and continents shall A be cut off; for the whole world always returned the ancient honor with moderation to the city; I think even the bitter tyrant felt grief; even a little, seeing the beauty of the city being ruined and its delight. For the extremity of misery knows how many times to move even the most hostile to pity. Now therefore is the time to find some tiny opening and be enclosed safely within it, and to mourn and weep forever; for of this there was not, nor shall there be, a worse evil.
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BESSARION, S.R.E. CARDINAL. PROLEGOMENA. Commentary on the life and deeds of Bessarion by Aloysius Bandinius. 1 Appendix of unpublished monuments, described partly from the archive of the basilica of the SS. XII Apostolorum, partly from the Vatican library. LXI Index of the principal subjects contained in the Dissertation. XCVII Panegyric in praise of Bessarion, composed by Baptista Platina and delivered in a public assembly while he was still alive. CIII Selected acts pertaining to Bessarion’s legation to Bologna. CXVII Funeral oration for Bessarion by Michael Apostolius. CXXVI Historical and bibliographic notice by Johannes Albertus Fabricius. CXXXIX
BESSARION’S WORKS. REFUTATION OF THE SYLLOGISTIC CHAPTERS OF MARCUS OF EPHESUS against the Latins, now published for the first time by the care of J. Hergenröther, professor of theology at the University of Würzburg. 11 APOLOGY for the Inscriptions of Veccus, against Gregorius Palamas, translated by Petrus Arcudius. 213 DEFENSES of the right and Catholic dogma of the Latins, namely, on the procession of the Holy Spirit against the heretic impugning it, edited in Greek and Latin. (The same work as the previous, but in Latin from Bessarion’s own translation. See the prefix Note.) 287 ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, to Alexius Lascaris Philanthropinus, from the translation of Petrus Arcudius. Presided over by Bessarion’s dedicatory epistle to Pope Paul II. 321 The same book, in Latin, from the translation of Bessarion. 407 ENCYCLICAL EPISTLE TO THE GREEKS. He exhorts them to obedience to the Roman Church and the acceptance of the Council of Florence; and concerning his election as Patriarch of Constantinople. Translated by Petrus Arcudius. Presided over by an argument for the epistle, in which it is inquired concerning the patriarchs of Constantinople who succeeded to Joseph after he died in Italy. 417 The same epistle from the translation of Bessarion. 481 CONFESSION OF THE GREEKS concerning the words of consecration and transubstantiation, explained by Bessarion at the Council of Florence. From Mabillon’s Museum Italicum. 489 ON THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST and by what words Christ’s body is made. From the Liturgies of Claudius de Sainctes. 493 COMPENDIUM OF THE ASCETICAL WORKS of St. Basil the Great, prepared for the use of Basilian monks living in Italy and Sicily. From a Madrid Greek codex by Joan. Yriarte, with our own translation added. 525 B Congratulatory address to the Council of Ferrara. 531 Dogmatic ORATION to the same council on the union of the Churches, translated by Bessarion himself. 543 DECLARATION of some things contained in the said oration, which are very well known to the Greeks but unknown to the Latins. 611 MONODY ON THE DEATH OF MANUEL PALEOLOGUS, who died in the year 1419. From Azovius, Continuation of the Annal. Baron. ad year 1479. 613 IAMBI ON THE DEATH OF THE EMPRESS THEODORA, wife of Emperor Constantine. From Allatius, On Consent. 621 ON THAT PASSAGE OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN: If I wish him to remain until I come, what is that to thee? Against Georgius Trapezuntinus, whom see below, col. 867, contradicting Bessarion. From the Hagenau edition of the year 1532. 623 ORATIONS to the princes of Italy concerning the Christian slaughter at Euboea, concerning the imminent dangers to Italy, concerning the capture of Otranto, concerning the pacification of discords, and concerning the decreeing of war against the Turks, to which is added a persuasion from Demosthenes’ Olynthiacs. Prefixed is Bessarion’s epistle to Fichetus, rector of the University of Paris, to whom he sends the aforesaid orations; an epistle of Fichetus to the princes of Savoy; and also Bessarion’s epistle to his homonym, Bessarion, a Basilian abbot. From the Roman edition of the year 1537, 4. 641 BESSARION’S EPISTLES. I. To Pope Paul II concerning the error of Pascha. 673 II. To the same, the Preface to the book on the Holy Spirit. 678 III. To the Greeks. He exhorts them to obedience to the most holy Roman Church and the acceptance of the Council of Florence; and concerning his election as Patriarch of Constantinople. 678 IV. To the chapter, canons, and chaplains of the church of the Twelve Apostles in the City. He sends them statutes and constitutions. 678 V. To Guillelmus Fichetus, doctor of the Sorbonne. He sends the orations directed by him to the princes of Italy concerning the imminent dangers to Italy and the decreeing of war against the Turks. 685 VI. To the tutor of the children of Thomas the Despot. 685 VII. To Theodorus Gaza. He candidly confesses what benefits he promised himself for the world of letters from the translations of Theophrastus and Aristotle. 686 VIII. To Michael Apostolius. He rebukes him because in the apology written for Gemistus Pletho, he had inveighed too warmly against Theodorus Gaza and Aristotle. 687 IX. To Andronicus Callistus. He promises to send copies of the opinions offered by him, and the aforementioned epistle.
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691 X. To the sons of Plethon. — Consolation. 695 XI. To Nicolaus Secundinus. — He sends a copy of the previous epistle. 697 XII. To King Louis XI. — He writes, being elected legate by the Supreme Pontiff, that he might see to the reconciliation of peace between the King himself and the Dukes of Burgundy and Brittany, having laid aside arms. 699 XIII. To the prince and senate of the Venetians. — He offers and bestows upon the same senate a library most well-furnished with every kind of book. 700 Table of books which Bessarion gave as a gift to the most serene dominion of the Venetians. 701 Bessarion’s interrogations to Plethon, with Plethon’s responses to Bessarion’s queries. 713 Georgius Amirutzes to Bessarion. Concerning the conquest of Trebizond by the Turks in the year 1461. 723 Gregorios the Monk’s laudatory epistle to Bessarion. 727 The same author’s encomiastic oration upon him. 731 Bessarion, from an oration on his homeland, Trebizond. 745
GEORGIUS TRAPEZUNTINUS Notice from Allatius’s *Diatriba* on the Georgii. 745 Second notice from Chr. Frid. Boerner’s *On Learned Greek Men, Restorers of Greek Letters in Italy*. 765 SCRIPTA. ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, to Joannes Cuboclesius. 769 ITEM, ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT and concerning the one holy catholic Church, to the Cretans. 829 ON THAT PASSAGE OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN: "If I will that he remain until I come, what is that to thee?" and that John the Evangelist is not yet dead. To Pope Sixtus IV. 867 MARTYRDOM OF ST. ANDREAS OF CHIOS who died at Constantinople in the first year of Pope Paul II, written in Latin by Georgius. 883 EPISTLE TO POPE EUGENIUS IV, concerning the union of the Churches, from the Mittarelli manuscript library of the monastery of S. Michael of Venice, near Murano. 889 Epistle to the Emperor Joannes Palaiologos. That he might set out for Italy to the synod. At the end of the edition by Phrantzes, Pontanus. 895
CONSTANTINUS LASCARIS Notice from Christ. Frid. Boerner’s *On Learned Greek Men, Restorers of Greek Letters in Italy*. 907 Constantinus Lascaris’s Epistle to Joannes Gatus, Bishop of Catania, prefixed to the book *On Greek Writers of Sicilian Origin*. From the Yriarte catalogue of the Madrid Greek manuscripts, with our translation. 913 On Greek writers of Sicilian origin. 915 On Greek writers of Calabrian origin. 923 DEEDS OF THE APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL, translated by Constantinus Lascaris. 929 Epilogue to the same book. 931 Epistle to Jacobus Ximenius Murellius, viceroy of the island of Sicily, concerning matters sub secretis. Concerning the life and writings of Herodian the grammarian, and concerning Theodosius, his epitomizer. From Yriarte, lib. cit. 937 On the fifth poet. Arguments prefixed to his books by Constantinus Lascaris. 942 Book on the poet, in which the nature and origin of poetry are briefly researched, and its various kinds are indicated. From the Pasini catalogue of the Turin Greek codices. 951 Epistle to his disciples, prefixed to the booklet *On Tropes and Figures*. From Yriarte. 953 Epistle to Georgius Placentinus concerning the meaning of the words *officium* and *officialis*, which the Greeks have borrowed from the Latins. From the same. 955 Fourteen familiar epistles. 957 On the fortunes of Demetrius and Thomas, despots of the Peloponnese, brothers of the Emperor Constantine, after the capture of the city, and the line of their offspring. 961 Notice of the Emperors of Constantinople from Theodorus Lascaris to Constantine III and the fall of the city. 963 965 Epitaph of Theodorus Gaza, by Phanurius Geracius Rhodius. 967 FUNERAL POEM on the only son of the King of the Catholics, on Ferdinand Curius, governor of Sicily, on Georgius Rhalis. 969
THEODORUS GAZA Notice from Allatius concerning the Theodori. 971 Second notice from the cited book of Boerner. 977 Eulogy of a Dog, from the *Bibliotheca Patrum* of Mai. 986 ON THE ORIGIN OF THE TURKS to Fr. Philelphus, from the *Symmicta* of Allatius. 997 (Theodorus Gaza’s Book on the Months exists in the appendix to the Chronicon of Eusebius, this *Patrologia*, vol. XIX, col. 1167.) Epistle to Demetrius Chalcocondyles. 1005 To the same. 1008
ANDRONICUS CALLISTUS Notice from the cited book of Boerner. 1013 Epistle to Georgius Palaiologos Disypatus. 1017 Monody on the capture of Constantinople, from the Royal Paris manuscript 1774, edited here for the first time. 1131 Novellae Constitutiones of the Emperors of Constantinople from the year 1220 until the capture of the city. 1019
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