General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . Gatriel 51 [«. BET ( 153 ) BET paid to tTie duke, received him rudely, andhastily dismissed him without entering on bu-siness. This affront so much affected Bessa-rion, that on his return, he fell sick at Turin,and died at Kavcnna in 1472, aged seventy-seven. This eminent person was the author ofseveral works, both printed and left in M^i. Ofthese the most remarkable is his defence of Pla-to,
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . Gatriel 51 [«. BET ( 153 ) BET paid to tTie duke, received him rudely, andhastily dismissed him without entering on bu-siness. This affront so much affected Bessa-rion, that on his return, he fell sick at Turin,and died at Kavcnna in 1472, aged seventy-seven. This eminent person was the author ofseveral works, both printed and left in M^i. Ofthese the most remarkable is his defence of Pla-to, agaiijst the virulent attack made upon himby George of Trebisond, in his comparison ofAristotle and Plato. Bessarion answered it bya publication entitled, In , lib. iv. first printed without a dateat Rome in 1470, and afterwards re-edited atVenice in 1503 and 1516, folio. In this piecehe very learnedly examines Platos opinions,especially on morals, and shews how muchnearer they approach to the doctrines of Chris-tianity than those of Aristotle. Others of hisprinted works are Letters, Orations, and transla-tions of Xenophons Memorabilia, the Meta-ph
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