Excerpt from Bessarion: Studie zur Geschichte der RenaissanceDoch nun zur Figur selbst., um welche wir gruppieren. Wir beschränken uns auf weniges nur, um anzudeuten, wie verschieden Bessarion beurteilt wurde. Offenbar hat Gibbon den Kardinal gar nicht gekannt. Er würde sonst nicht, von ihm als einem Patrioten kurzsichtig geredet haben, who sacritices his party and conscience to the allurements of favour (hist. Vol. XII, p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.