Abstract
Demetrius Cydones (c. 1324–1397) was a dominant intellectual as well as a leading statesman of fourteenth-century Byzantium. In foreign policy he consistently and unsuccessfully sought the support of Western European powers in the Empire’s struggle with the Ottomans. He produced influential Greek translations of Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, and other Latin theologians. The substantial corpus of his correspondence is an important source for the history of the period.
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Searby, D.M. (2015). Cydones, Demetrius. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_36-1
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