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Demetrius Cydones vel litteris Graecis Δημήτριος Κυδώνης (Thessalonicae natus anno 1324; mortuus in insula Creta 1398) fuit eruditus et politicus Byzantinus qui ter mesazon seu primus minister meruit: 1347-1354, imperatore Ioanne VI Cantacuzeno; 1369-1383, imperatore Ioanne V Palaeologo; 1391-1396, imperatore Manuele II Ioannis filio. Exstant epistulae quas Manuel imperator Demetrio misit.

Opera

  • Apologia
  • De contemnenda morte oratio Textus
  • Occisorum Thessalonicae monodia {PG vol. 109 coll. 639-652)
  • Oratio pro subsidio Latinorum (PG vol. 154 col. 961 ff.)
  • Oratio de non reddenda Gallipoli (PG vol. 154 col. 1033 ff.)
  • Epistulae

Bibliographia

Editiones et versiones operum
  • J. W. Barker, "The Monody of Demetrios Kydones on the Zealot Rising of 1345 in Thessaloniki" in Essays in Memory of Basil Laourdas (Thessalonicae, 1975) pp. 285-300
  • R. J. Loenertz, ed., Démétrius Cydonès: Correspondance. 2 voll. Civitas Vaticana, 1956-1960
Eruditio
  • R. J. Loenertz, "Démétrius Cydonès, 1. De la naissance à l'année 1373" in Orientalia Christiana periodica vol. 36 (1970) pp. 42-47
  • R. J. Loenertz, "Démétrius Cydonès citoyen de Venise" in Echos d'Orient vol. 37 (1938) pp. 125-126
  • R. J. Loenertz, "L'exil de Manuel II Paléologue à Lemnos" in Orientalia Christiana periodica vol. 38 (1972) pp. 116-140
  • R. J. Loenertz, Les recueils de lettres de Démétrius Cydonès. Civitas Vaticana, 1947
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