Funeral Oration for Bessarion

This brief funeral oration was composed by the Greek monk Michael Apostolius, also known as Apostolius Paroemiographus. He laments the passing of Cardinal Bessarion, who was the last remaining line of connection between the exiled Greek community and the late Eastern Roman Empire. In this work he...

D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator. To date he has translated over three hundred texts relating to the development of the Western World and Christianity between the 5th and 13th centuries.