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, Bessarion knew that he would have to do so in Latin, but
in actuality, he composed his response in Greek and then translated
it into Latin. The result was the Liber Defensionum contra
Obiectiones in Platonem, which was ready for publication by 1466.
At that point, however, he withdrew it from publication in order to
expand its content as well as to refine its Latinity. Bessarion’s
response finally appeared in 1469 as the In Calumniatorem Platonis.
But it was in the Liber Defensionum that Bessarion made his major
decisions on what to include as well as what to exclude from his
original Greek text and exactly how he would render the Greek into
Latin. Thus, to understand the language and structure of the In
Calumniatorem Platonis one must turn first to the Liber
Defensionum.
General
Imprint: |
De Gruyter
|
Country of origin: |
Germany |
Series: |
Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Philosophica |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Bessarion
|
Editors: |
John Monfasani
|
Dimensions: |
240 x 170mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
270 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-11-124635-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-11-124635-3 |
Barcode: |
9783111246352 |
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