Bellarmine · De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis · On the Ecclesiastical Writers

Chapter 37: Tostado, Panormitanus, Antoninus, Aeneas Sylvius, Laurence Justinian, Torquemada, Bessarion

Our translation, from the Latin of the Opera Omnia (Paris: Vivès, 1870–74), vol. XII, De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis, of the New Testament, fifteenth century. The Latin source text is public domain; this English rendering is released with the site. Scripture quotations follow Bellarmine's Vulgate citations, rendered in Douay-Rheims wording where he quotes exactly. Click “Show the Latin” for the original (raw OCR of the scan; scanning errors remain — the scan itself is the authority).

Alphonsus Tostado. 1440

Alphonsus Tostado, a Spaniard by nation, Bishop of Avila, a man most celebrated for holiness and learning, lived in the time of the Pontiff Eugene the fourth, about the year of the Lord 1440. He wrote most copious commentaries on the Pentateuch, on Joshua, Judges and Ruth, and also on the books of Kings and of Chronicles, and on the Gospel of St. Matthew; in which commentaries he resolved innumerable questions, so that it was rightly written of him: “Here is the wonder of the world, who discusses everything that can be known.” And what is more to be wondered at, he wrote so much in a very short time, since he lived only forty years. Nor did he write only those commentaries, but also very many little works, of which these are extant:

A Defence of three conclusions.
A book On the holy Trinity.
A book against concubinary Priests.
Paradoxes.
An Explanation of the words of Isaiah, Behold a Virgin shall conceive.
A book On the state of souls after death.
A book On the best polity.

Biondo the Historian. 1440

Flavio Biondo, of Forlì by birth, was secretary to Eugene the fourth, supreme Pontiff; and he wrote a Roman history, in which many Church matters are contained, from the decline of the empire down to his own times, that is, from the year of the Lord 407 to the year 1440.

Nicholas of Palermo. 1440

Nicholas Tudeschis, a Sicilian by nation, of Catania by birth, of the order of St. Benedict, an Abbot, and afterwards Archbishop of Palermo, and at last created Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, but in the schism, by Felix the fifth, the Antipope. He was a man most skilled in canon law, and wrote very many things, which are contained in eight volumes in the Venice edition of the year 1592.

In the first and second volumes are commentaries on the first book of the decretals.
In the third, fourth and fifth volumes are commentaries on the second book of the decretals.
In the sixth volume are commentaries on the third of the decretals.
In the seventh volume are commentaries on the fourth and fifth of the decretals, and on the Clementines.
In the eighth volume are 226 counsels, and seven questions.
Also a re-reading on the chapter Per tuas, on Arbiters.
Also his practice.

He is said also to have written a commentary, begun, on the decree; but I do not know whether it is extant. He is said also to have written a book for the council of Basel; but it is credible that this book, as written in a bad cause, and so erroneous, was struck out from his works. I certainly have found it nowhere among his works in their various editions. And although this author sat in the Council of Basel, even at the time when the Council was headless and schismatic, yet in this he behaved well: that when they were bringing a multitude of Priests into the Council, for want of Bishops, he contradicted them most freely, as Aeneas Sylvius, who was present, testifies in his history of the Council of Basel. For he knew, and taught, that in Councils, especially general ones, there is no place for simple Priests as to the deciding vote, unless they held the place of absent Bishops. Nicholas, the Abbot of Palermo, died in the year 1445.

St. Antoninus of Florence. 1445

St. Antoninus, a Florentine by birth, of the Order of Preachers, and afterwards Archbishop of Florence, a most learned and most holy man, died in the year of the Lord 1459, in the seventieth year of his age; the Pontiff Adrian VI enrolled him in the catalogue of saints.

He wrote a historical summa divided into three parts.
A theological summa, divided into four parts.
A book On the instruction of Confessors, which is called Defecerunt, because it begins, Defecerunt scrutinio.

He is said also to have written a dialogue of three on Christ and the two disciples going to Emmaus, in which are explained all the things that were foretold of the life, death and Resurrection of the Lord.

Aeneas Sylvius. 1450

Aeneas Sylvius, of Siena by birth, a learned man, prudent and of great spirit, first secretary to the emperor, then Bishop of Siena, then Cardinal, at last supreme Pontiff as Pius the second, died in the year of the Lord 1464, while he was preparing a great expedition against the Turks, the enemies of the name of Christ.

He wrote one book on Church matters against the Taborites.
To Nicholas of Cusa, one book.
On the Faith, to the emperor of the Turks.
On the history of the Bohemians.
On the disaster of Constantinople.
On the disaster of the universal Church.
On the assembly of Mantua, an Oration.
To Pope Callixtus, an Oration.
To the Cardinals, an Oration.
An Epitome of the Decades of Biondo.
Many letters.
On the Council of Basel, two books.
A Retractation.
Commentaries on the things done by himself.
A Reply to Martin Mair on behalf of the Roman Church.

He wrote besides many things belonging to humane letters, to poetry, and to the description of countries.

First observation. What Aeneas wrote for the Council of Basel when he was young, he retracted when old and supreme Pontiff. And although those books on the Council of Basel were rightly forbidden by the Catholic Church, yet the heretics of Basel, who lately reprinted the same books, brought harm not so much to the Catholic Church as to their own cause. For from that history of Aeneas Sylvius on the Council of Basel it appears that the Council was lawful at the beginning; but that when those Fathers set about deposing the true Pontiff Eugene the fourth, they no longer had the form of a true Council, not only because it was headless, but also because, against the form of all the ancient Councils, there were more Priests in that assembly with a deciding vote than Bishops. For it is very well known that general councils, as also provincial ones, belong to Bishops, not to lesser Priests; for so we read in the Council of Chalcedon, in the first session: “Send out those who have no business here; the Council is of Bishops.” See, if you please, what we have written in book 3 On the Church, chapter 16.

Second observation. There are extant commentaries on the deeds of Pius the second under the name of John Gobellinus; but it is doubtful whether that work is by the Pontiff Pius himself, or truly by him under whose name it came out. For the same commentaries are extant in manuscript under the name of Pius the second, and the style seems to be the same in this work and in the others of the same author; but the matter is not of great moment.

Andrea Barbazza. 1460

Andrea Barbazza, a Sicilian, flourished in the year 1460. He wrote on the Decretals. He wrote also On the excellence of the Cardinals. He wrote also various counsels.

Laonicus Chalcondyles. 1460

Laonicus Chalcondyles of Athens wrote a history in ten books on the origin and deeds of the Turks down to his own times, that is, to the year of the Lord 1462; to which history an appendix is added, by which the history is continued to the year of the Lord 1565. We place this author among the Church writers because his history contains very many things belonging to Christian affairs.

Yet because this author was put into Latin by a heretical man, and enlarged with notes set in the margin, his reading is found forbidden in the index of prohibited books. Laonicus himself also is not free of false stories, which he rashly believed, being ignorant of our affairs.

John of Bassoles. 1460

John of Bassoles, of the order of Minors, wrote commentaries not to be despised on the four books of the sentences. He was living in the year of the Lord 1466 [as printed; he was a hearer of Scotus, of the fourteenth century].

Blessed Laurence Justinian. 1440

Blessed Laurence Justinian, a Venetian by birth, first a Canon Regular, then Bishop of Venice, lastly the first Patriarch of the same City, flourished in learning, holiness and miracles in the times of Eugene the fourth and Nicholas the fifth, Roman Pontiffs, about the year of the Lord 1440. He died in the year 1456. He wrote fifteen volumes, of which these are the titles:

The Tree of life.
On monastic discipline.
On the marriage of the Word and the soul.
On humility.
On the spiritual death of the soul.
On the triumphal contest of Christ.
On the inner conflict.
On the lament of the Church.
On the body and blood of Christ.
On the solitary life.
On contempt of the world.
On the Lord's discourse at the supper.
On the Pastoral office.
On obedience.
On the degrees of perfection.

He wrote besides forty sermons. He died in the seventy-fourth [the second figure is damaged in the scan] year of his age, the twenty-fourth of his Episcopate; but in the last five years he was also Patriarch.

John of Torquemada. 1440

John of Torquemada, a Spaniard by nation, of the Order of Preachers, Cardinal Priest of St. Sixtus, created by Eugene the fourth, afterwards Cardinal Bishop of Sabina, an eminent Theologian and jurist, died in the year of the Lord 1468, older than 80.

He wrote a summa On the Church, four books.
An Apparatus on the decree of Eugene the fourth on the union of the Greeks with the Latins.
Commentaries on the decree of Gratian.
On the Psalter.
On the Sunday Gospels.
On the Gospels of the saints.
On the body of Christ, against the Bohemians.
On the salvation of the soul.
On holy water.
On the Conception of the Blessed Virgin.
On the rule of St. Benedict.
Meditations on the life of Christ.

Matteo Palmieri. 1440

Matteo Palmieri of Florence lived at the time of the Council of Florence, as he himself testifies in the chronicle. He wrote, or continued, the Chronicle from the year 449, where St. Prosper left off, to the year 1449. John Trithemius indeed writes that this Matteo was afterwards convicted of heresy and condemned; but in his chronicle I have found no trace of error.

Mattia Palmieri. 1440

Mattia Palmieri of Pisa lived in the same century, and continued the chronicle of Matteo from the year 1450 to 1481.

Cardinal Bessarion. 1440

Bessarion, a Greek by nation, of Trebizond by birth, by rank Bishop of Nicaea, afterwards Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, created by the Pontiff Eugene the fourth, having carried out many legations and been worn by many other pious labours, died in the year of the Lord 1472, while Sixtus the fourth sat.

He wrote an oration for the union, long and most learned, which is extant in Greek and Latin in session 25 of the Council of Florence.
He wrote also another shorter one, which likewise is extant in Greek and Latin, in session 1 of the same Council.
He wrote also a book against Mark Epherius [as printed; Mark of Ephesus] in defence of the Roman Church.
He wrote also on the words of consecration against the same Mark.
He wrote on that saying of John 21, So I will have him remain till I come.

He wrote lastly many philosophical things in defence of Plato; and he put the metaphysics of Aristotle into Latin; and he is said to have sent three books of consolation to the emperor of the Greeks.

De  A  Iphonso  Tonstato.  1440. 
Alphonsus  Tonstatus  natione  Hispanus 
Episcopus  Abulensis,  vir  sanctitate  et  do¬ 
ctrina  celeberrimus,  vixit  tempore  Eugenii 
quarti  Pontificis,  circa  annum  Dom.  1440. 
Scripsit  commentaria  copiosissimam  Pen¬ 
tateuchum,  in  Josue,  Judices  et  Ruth  :  nec 
non  in  libros  Regum,  et  Paralipomenon,  'et 
in  Evangelium  Sancti  Matthaei  :  in  quibus 
commentariis  dissoluit  quaestiones  innume¬ 
rabiles,  ut  merito  de  eo  scriptum  sit  :  «  Hic 
stupor  est  mundi,  qui  scibile  discutit  omne,  » 
et  quod  magis  est  admirandum,  tanta  scri¬ 
psit  brevissimo  tempore,  cum  non  vixerit 
nisi  annos  quadraginta.  Neque  solum  com¬ 
mentaria  illa  scripsit,  sed  etiam  opuscula 
plurima, e  quibus  exstant : 
Defensorium  trium  conclusionum. 
Liber  de  sancta  Trinitate. 
Liber  contra  Sacerdotes  concubinarios. 
Paradoxa. 
Explicatio  verborum  Isaiae,  Ecce  Virgo 
concipiet. 
Liber  de  statu  animarum  post  mortem. 
Liber  de  optima  politica. 
De  Blondo  Historico.  1440. 
V  • 
Flavius  Blondus  patriaForoliviensis,  a  se¬ 
cretis  fuit  Eugenio  quarto  summo  Pontifici; 
et  scripsit  historiam  Romanam,  in  qua  mul¬ 
ta  Ecclesiastica  continentur,  ab  inclinatione 
imperii  usque  ad  sua  tempora,  id  est,  ab 
anno  Domini  407.  usque  ad  an.  1440. 
De  Nicolao  Panormitano.  1440. 
Nicolaus  Tudescus,  natione  Siculus,  patria 
Catanensis,  ord.  S.  Benedicti,  Abbas,  et  po¬ 
stea  ArchiepiscopusPanormitanus,  ac  demum 
S.  R.  E.  Cardinalis  creatus,  sed  in  schismate, 
a  Felice  quinto  Antipapa.  Vir  fuit  juris  ca¬ 
nonici  peritissimus,  et  plurima  scripsit,  quae 
tomis  octo  comprehenduntur  in  editione 
Veneta  anni  1592. 
In  primo  et  secundo  tomo  habentur  com¬ 
mentaria  in  primum  librum  decretalium. 
In  tertio,  quarto,  et  quinto  tomo  habentur 
commentaria  in  secundum  librum  decreta¬ 
lium. 
In  sexto  tomo  habentur  commentaria  in 
tertium  decretalium. 
In  septimo  tomo  habentur  commentaria  in 
quartum  et  quintum  decretalium  :  et  in 
epistolas  Clementinas. 
In  octavo  tomo  habentur  Concilia  226. 
quaestiones  septem. 
Item  relectio  in  cap.  Per  tuas,  de  Arbi¬ 
tris. 
Item  practica  ejusdem. 
Dicitur  etiam  scripsisse  commentarium 
inchoatum  in  decretum  :  sed  nescio,  an  exstet. 
Dicitur  etiam  scripsisse  librum  pro  conc. 
Basileensi,  sed  hunc  librum,  ut  in  mala 
causa  scriptum,  et  proinde  erroneum,  cre¬ 
dibile  est  ex  ejus  operibus  abrasum  fuisse. 
Ego  certe  inter  ejus  opera  variarum  editio¬ 
num  eum  nusquam  reperi.  Quamvis  autem 
hic  auctor  sederit  in  Concilio  Basileensi, 
etiam  quo  tempore  Concilium  acephalum  et 
schismaticum  erat  :  tamen  iu  eo  bene  se 
gessit,  quod  introducentibus  in  Concilium 
multitudinem  Presbyterorum,  ob  defectum 
Episcoporum,  liberrime  contradixit  :  ut  te¬ 
statur  iEneas  Sylvius,  qui  praesens  aderat, 
in  historia  Concilii  Basileensis.  Sciebat 
enim,  et  docebat,  in  Conciliis,  praesertim  ge¬ 
neralibus,  locum  non  esse  simplicibus  Pre¬ 
sbyteris,  quoad  votum  decisivum,  nisi  locum 
tenerent  absentium  Episcoporum.  Obiit  Ni¬ 
colaus,  Abbas  Panormitanus,  anno  1445. 
De  S.  Antonino  Florentino.  1445. 
Sanctus  Antoninus,  patria  Florentinus, 
Ordinis  Praedicatorum,  ac  postea  Florentiae 
Archiepiscopus,  vir  doctissimus,  et  sanctissi¬ 
mus,  obiit  anno  Dom.  1459,  aetatis  septua- 
gessimo,  quem  in  sanctorum  catalogum  re¬ 
tulit  Adrianus  VI.  Pontifex. 
465 
AB  ANNO  DOM.  1400.  AU  1500. 
Scripsit  summam  historialem  in  tres  par¬ 
tes  divisam. 
Summam  theologicam,  in  quatuor  partes 
divisam. 
Librum  de  eruditione  Confessorum,  qui 
dicitur  Defecerunt,  quia  incipit,  Defecerunt 
scrutinio. 
Dicitur  etiam  scripsisse  trialogum  de  Chri¬ 
sto,  et  duobus  discipulis  euntibus  in  Emmaiis, 
in  quo  explicantur  omnia  quae  de  vita,  morte, 
et  Resurrectione  Domini  praedicta  sunt. 
De  sEnea  Sylvio.  1450. 
.  m  Hrr  iit  iri 
xEneas  Sylvius,  patria  Senensis,  vir  do¬ 
ctus,  prudens,  et  magni  animi,  ac  primum 
a  secretis  imperatoris,  deinde  Episcopus  Se¬ 
nensis,  tum  Cardinalis,  denique  summus 
Pontifex  Pius  secundus,  dum  expeditionem 
magnam  adversus  Tureas  Christi  mi  nomi¬ 
nis  hostes  moliretur,  obiit  anno  Dom.  1464. 
Scripsit  de  rebus  Ecclesiasticis  contra 
Thaboritas  librum  unum. 
Ad  Nicolaum  de  Cusa  lib.  1. 
De  Fide  ad  imperatorem  Turearum. 
De  historia  Bohemorum. 
De  clade  Constantinopolitana. 
De  clade  universalis  Ecclesiae. 
De  conventu  Mantuano,  Oratio. 
Ad  Calixtum  Papam,  Oratio. 
Ad  Cardinales  Oratio. 
Decadum  Blondi,  Epitomem. 
Epistolas  multas. 
De  Concilio  Basileensi,  libros  duos. 
Retractationem. 
Commentaria  de  rebus  a  se  gestis. 
Responsionem  ad  Martinum  Mejer  pro 
Ecclesia  Romana. 
Scripsit  praeterea  multa  ad  humanita¬ 
tem,  ad  poesim,  ad  chorographiam 
pertinentia. 
i  ■  '!«•./*.  v«  >ei"sv  «ib  ft-roo  M 
Observatio  prima. 
Si  ^  ;yV.  *  K  1  •  \  .  x  -  > 
Quse  scripsit iEneas  pro  Concilio  Basileen¬ 
si,  cum  juvenis  esset,  retractavit  senex,  et 
Pontifex  Maximus  :  et  quamvis  libri  illi 
de  Concilio  Basileensi  merito  prohibiti  ab 
Ecclesia  Catholica  ;  tamen  haeretici  Ba- 
sileenses,  qui  nuper  eosdem  libros  recude- 
runt,  non  tam  Ecclesiae  Catholicae,  quam 
causas  suae  detrimentum  attulerunt.  Siqui¬ 
dem  ex  historia  illa  dSneaeSylvii  de  Concilio 
Basileensi,  apparet  illud  Concilium  initio 
fuisse  legitimum  :  sed  ubi  verum  Pontificem 
Tom.  XII. 
Eugenium  quartum  deponere  aggressi  sunt 
Patres  illi  jam  non  habuisse  formam  veri 
Concilii,  non  solum,  quod  acephalum  esset, 
sed  etiam  quod  contra  formam  omnium  ve¬ 
terum  Conciliorum  plures  essent  in  eo  con¬ 
ventu  Presbyteri  cum  voce  decisiva,  quam 
Episcopi  :  notissimum  enim  est,  concilia 
generalia,  ut  etiam  provincialia,  Episcopo¬ 
rum  esse,  non  minorum  Sacerdotum  :  sic 
enim  legimus  in  Concilio  Chalcedonensi 
actione  prima,  «  Mitte  foras  superfluos  ; 
Concilium  Episcoporum  est.  »  Vide,  si  pla¬ 
cet,  quse  scripsimus  lib.  m.  de  Ecclesia 
cap.  16. 
Observatio  secunda. 
♦ 
Exstant  commentaria  de  rebus  gestis  Pii 
secundi  sub  nomine  Joannis  Gobellini,  sed 
dubium  est,  an  illud  opus  sit  ipsius  Pii  Pon¬ 
tificis,  an  vero  ejus,  sub  cujus  nomine  pro¬ 
diit  :  exstant  enim  manuscripsa  commenta¬ 
ria  eadem  sub  nomine  Pii  secundi  et  stylus 
videtur  esse  idem  in  hoc  opere,  et  in  aliis 
ejusdem  auctoris,  sed  res  non  est  magni 
momenti. 
De  Andrea  Barbatio.  1460. 
>1  Wl*  . 
Andreas  Barbatius  Siculus,  floruit  anno 
1460.  . . 
Scripsit  in  Decretales. 
Scripsit  etiam  de  Cardinalium  praestan¬ 
tia. 
Scripsit  quoque  varia  concilia. 
ilo-ij'  c-iij.  .  j  j 
De  Laonico  Chalcondyla.  1460. 
Laonicus  Chalcondyla  Atheniensis,  scri¬ 
psit  historiam  libris  decem,  de  origine  et 
rebus  gestis  Turearum  usque  ad  sua  tem¬ 
pora,  id  est,  ad  annum  Dom.  1462.,  cui 
historia?  adjecta  est  appendix,  qua  continua¬ 
tur  historia  usque  ad  annum  Dom.  1565. 
Hunc  auctorem  ponimus  inter  Ecclesiasticos, 
quoniam  ejus  historia  plui  ima  continet  ad 
res  Christianas  pertinentia. 
Quia  tamen  hic  auctor  ab  Haeretico  homine 
latinitate  donatus  est,  et  annotationibus  in 
margine  positis  auctus  in  indice  librorum 
prohibitorum,  ejus  lectio  interdicta  inveni¬ 
tur.  Ipse  etiam  Laonicus  non  caret  narratio¬ 
nibus  falsis,  quas  temere  credidit  rerum  no¬ 
strarum  ignarus.  f  n 
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De  Joanne  Bassoho.  1460. 
Joannes  Bassolius  ordinis  Minorum,  scri¬ 
psit  in  quatuor  libros  sententiarum  non  con¬ 
temnenda  commentaria.  Vivebat  anno  Dom. 
1466. 
De  Beato  Laurentio  Justiniano.  1440. 
B.  Laurentius  Justinianus,  patria  Venetus, 
ac  primum  Canonicus  Regularis ,  deinde 
Episcopus  Venetiarum ,  postremo  primus 
ejusdem  Urbis  Patriarcha,  floruit  doctrina, 
sanctitate,  et  miraculis,  temporibus  Eugenii 
quarti,  et  Nicolai  quinti  Pontificum  Roma¬ 
norum,  circa  annum  Dom.  1440.  Obiit  anno 
1456.  Scripsit  volumina  quindecim,  quarum 
hi  sunt  tituli : 
Lignum  vitae. 
De  disciplina  monastica. 
De  connubio  Verbi,  et  animse. 
De  humilitate. 
De  spirituali  interitu  animse.  . 
De  triumphali  agone  Christi. 
De  interiori  conflictu. 
De  complanctu  Ecclesias. 
De  corpore,  et  sanguine  Christi. 
De  vita  solitaria. 
De  contemptu  mundi. 
De  sermone  Domini  in  coena. 
De  officio  Pastorali. 
De  obedientia. 
De  gradibus  perfectionis. 
Scripsit  praeterea  sermones  quadraginta. 
Obiit  anno  aetatis  7  i.,  Episcopatus  vicesimo 
quarto,  sed  quinque  annis  ultimis  fuit  etiam 
Patriarcha. 
De  Joanne  de  Turrecremata.  1440. 
Joannes  de  Turrecremata,  natione  Hispa¬ 
nus,  Ordinis  Praedicatorum  Cardinalis  Pre¬ 
sbyter  S.  Sixli  ab  Eugenio  quarto  creatus? 
postea  Episcopus  Cardinalis  Sabinus,  Theo¬ 
logus,  et  jureconsultus  eximius  obiit  anno 
Dom.  1468.  aetatis  80.  major. 
Scripsit  summam  de  Ecclesia,  quatuor 
libros. 
Apparatum  super  decretum  Eugenii 
quarti  de  unione  Graecorum  cum  Lati¬ 
nis.  , 
Commentaria  in  decretum  Gratiani, 
n  Psalterium. 
In  Evangelia  dominicalia. 
In  Evangelia  de  sanctis. 
De  corpore  Christi  contra  Bohemos. 
De  salute  animae. 
De  aqua  benedicta. 
De  Conceptione  B.  Virginis. 
In  regulam  Sancti  Benedicti. 
Meditationes  de  vita  Christi. 
De  Matthaeo  Palmerio.  1440. 
Matthaeus  Palmerius  Florentinus,  vixit 
tempore  Concilii  Flor  entini,  ut  ipse  testatur 
in  chronico.  Scripsit,  sive  continuavit  Chro¬ 
nicam  ab  anno  449.,  ubi  desiit  S.  Prosper, 
usque  ad  annum  1449.  Scribit  quidem  Jo. 
Trithemius,  hunc  Matthaeum  postea  de  hae- 
resi  convictum,  et  damnatum  fuisse,  sed  in 
chronico  ipsius  nullum  ego  erroris  inveni  ve¬ 
stigium. 
De  Matthia  Palmerio.  1440. 
Matthias  Palmerius  Pisanus,  vixit  eodem 
saeculo,  et  continuavit  chronicum  Matthaei 
ab  anno  1450,  usque  ad  1481. 
De  Bessarione  Cardinali.  1440. 
Bessarion  natione  Graecus,  patria  Trape- 
zuntius,  dignitate  Episcopus  Nicaenus,  pos¬ 
tea  Cardinalis  S.  II.  E.  ab  Eugenio  quarto 
Pontifice  creatus,  multis  legationibus  per¬ 
functus,  multisque  aliis  piis  laboribus  fati¬ 
gatus,  obiit  anno  Dom.  1472.,  Sixto  quarto 
sedente. 
Scripsit  orationem  pro  unione,  prolixam, 
et  doctissimam,  quae  exstat  Graece  et  Latine 
sess.  25.  Concilii  Florentini. 
Scripsit  quoque  aliam  breviorem,  quae 
pariter  exstat  Graece  et  Latine,  sessione  1. 
ejusdem  Concilii. 
Scripsit  etiam  librum  adversus  Marcum 
Epherium  pro  defensione  Ecclesiae  Romanae. 
Scripsit  quoque  de  verbis  consecrationis 
adversus  eumdern  Marcum. 
Scripsit  de  illo  Joannis  XXI.  Sic  eum  volo 
munere  donec  veniam. 
Scripsit  denique  multa  philosophica  in 
defensionem  Platonis  :  et  metaphysicam 
Aristotelis  latinitate  donavit  :  et  libros  tres 
consolatorios  ad  imperatorem  Graecorum  mi¬ 
sisse  dicitur.