Re: VMs: Quattrocento Minor Characters...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 00:00 02/12/2003 -0800, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> It's of course a non-trivial undertaking :-)

I'm in no hurry. :-)

> And you'd need to define both 'quattrocento
> character' and 'minor'. For the former, I'd
> think that anyone who has been 'active' prior
> to 1500 should qualify.

I guess "anyone active in Northern Italy at any time during 1400-1500" 
ought to fit the bill. :-)

> For the latter, should
> one exclude such major characters as Trebizond
> and some of his humanist friends and enemies?
> It would probably be a mistake...

I suppose my own working definition of "minor" is closer to "anyone who 
hasn't bee the subject of at least two (preferably conflicting) biographies 
during the last 25 years". While George of Trebizond's work has been 
collected (by Monfasani), I'm not sure he's had even one biography. But 
still, YMMV. :-)

BTW, I just found this interesting paper which discusses how a number of 
humanists (such as George of Trebizond, Amirutzes, etc) tried to bridge 
between Christianity and Islam after the fall of Byzantium:-
        http://www.filol.csic.es/departamentos/bizantinos/mehmet.html

Thanks, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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