Funeral Oration for Bessarion
Michael Apostolius · D.P. Curtin
Mar 2007 · The Byzantine Church (476-1453 AD) Book 11 · Dalcassian Press
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This brief funeral oration was composed by the Greek monk Michael Apostolius, also known as Apostolius Paroemiographus. He laments the passing of Cardinal Bessarion, who was the last remaining line of connection between the exiled Greek community and the late Eastern Roman Empire. In this work he compares Bessarion to the Greek orators of the ancient world, in his skill and style, and laments the diminishment of Classical civilization with the conquests of the Turkish Empire in his lifetime.
About the author
D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator. To date he has translated over three hundred texts relating to the development of the Western World and Christianity between the 5th and 13th centuries.
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