I libri di Bessarione

Résumé éditeur

This volume contains a series of studies on the codices of Bessarion's library that are scattered in various libraries outside Venice and reconsiders some particularly interesting manuscripts that belonged to the famous Cardinal and those codices that preserve fundamental subjects such as philosophy, history, science. Thirty years after the conclusion of the cataloguing of the manuscripts kept in the Marciana Library (Venice), due to the the progresses of palaeographic, codicological and intellectual studies on Byzantium and Italy in the fifteenth century, it is possible to reconsider Bessarion's library, its formation, its history, its organization and also the activity of the Cardinal (and his collaborators) as a copyist and annotator of manuscripts