George Amiroutzes
George Amiroutzes (
Life
Amiroutzes was born in
The Genoese archives document Amiroutzes leading a diplomatic mission on behalf of Emperor John IV, seeking marriage alliance between a member of the Komnenos family, and a daughter of the Genoese doge Lodovico di Campofregoso.[4]
However, he was denounced by his fellow Greeks as an opportunist, a traitor and a renegade for his familiarity with Sultan
Some years later, David was executed. The traditional story says that David received a letter from his niece, Theodora, the wife of
George Amiroutzes himself was very popular with the Ottoman court, and one of the advisors of Mehmed on Christianity and Greco-Roman philosophy. He was granted land by the Ottoman Sultan and one of his sons, named after Mehmed, was charged with responsibility for the Greek scriptoria in the Empire. [7]
After
Known works
- Dialogus de fide
- Letter to Bessarion on the Fall of Trebizond
- Letters to Theodore Agallianos about Agallianos's book On Providence
- A letter on the Council at Florence, authenticity disputed
- various poems dedicated to Mehmed II and others
See also
References
- ISBN 90-429-1459-9
- ^ Bart Janssens, Peter van Deun, George Amiroutzes and his poetical oeuvre
- ^ Карпов, С. П. (Karpov S. P.) (1981). Трапезундская империя и западноевропейские государства в XIII-XV вв. (The Empire of Trebizond and Western European States in the 13th-15th Centuries). Moscow: Moscow University publishing house. p. 141.
- ^ Sergei Karpov, Gamer, 1 (2012), p. 78
- ^ William Miller, Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era (Chicago: Argonaut, 1926), pp. 105f
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, pp. 108f
- ^ Anthony Bryer, "The Pontic Greeks before the Diaspora", Journal of Refugee Studies, (1991) 4, 315-334
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, p. 112