[83] Giovanni Bellini (post1427-1516), the founder of the Venetian School of painting and the greatest of the fifteenth-century artists. Titian and Giorgione were both his pupils.—T.
[84] Paride Bordone (circa 1500-1571), one of Titian's greatest pupils.—T.
[85] Jacopo Palma the Elder( circa 1480-1528) and Jacopo Palma the Younger (circa 1544-1628), uncle and nephew.—T.
[86] Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) settled in Venice and presented the city with his library (1362).—T.
[87] George Gemistus Pletho (b. 1390), the celebrated Byzantine Platonic philosopher and scholar.—T.
[88] Johannes Cardinal Bessarion (1395-1472), Archbishop of Nicæa (1437), a cardinal (1439), Archbishop of Siponto and Bishop of Sabina and Tusculum, and Patriarch of Constantinople (1463). Bessarion was a disciple of Plethon and author of, among many other works of Platonic philosophy, the famous Adversus Calumniatorem Platonis (1469).—T.
[89] Or Acre: 1104.—T.
[90] 1176.—T.
[91] 1124.—T.
[92] 10 October 1571.—T.