A proposito dell’anonimo destinatario di due lettere del cardinal Bessarione

This article proposes the identification of the anonymous addressee of two Greek letters of cardinal Bessarion as George Trapezuntius. Dating from the end of 1453 and the beginning of 1454, they supply details of the life of the addressee which are consistent with events in Trapezuntius’ life: his departure from Rome after the quarrel with Poggio Bracciolini, his move to Naples, where he lost the greater part of his possessions, his attempt to warn the Pope of the conspiracy of Stefano Porcari, his pardon by the Pope and readmission to the Curia, and the use of two of Bessarion’s manuscripts for his translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian ‘Problemata’ and Ptolemy’s ‘Almagest’.