GEORGE OF TREBIZOND Greek philo sopher and pioneer of the revival of letters in the West, was born in the island of Crete. In Italy, he learned Latin from Vittorino da Feltre. His reputation as a teacher and a translator of Aris totle was very great, and he was selected as secretary by Pope Nicholas V., an ardent Aristotelian. His attacks upon Plato (in the Comparatio Aristotelis et Platonis [1464D, ), drew forth a powerful response from Bessarion (q.v.), and his inaccurate trans lations of Plato, Aristotle and other classical authors, combined to ruin his fame. He retired to the court of Alphonso V. at Naples, but returned to Rome where he died unheeded on Aug. 12, 1484.
See G. Voigt, Die Wiederbelebung des klassischen Altertums (1893). For a complete list of his translations from Greek into Latin (Plato, Aristotle and the Fathers) and original essays in Greek (chiefly theological) and Latin (grammatical and rhetorical), see Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca (ed. Harles), xii.