15th-century Byzantine writers

Byzantine emperor (1350-1425)

Bessarion (; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated by Gemistus Pletho in Neoplatonic philosophy and later served as the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople. He eventually was named a cardinal and was twice considered for the papacy.

Byzantine Greek scholar, diplomat, and professor (c. 1350–1415)

Patriarch of Constantinople

Greek lecturer, philosopher and humanist

archbishop of Ephesus

Greek philosopher

Greek Renaissance humanist scholar

Catholic cardinal

Greek grammarian and scholar (1434–1501)

Greek academic

Greek Renaissance scholar, poet of Neolatin, humanist and soldier

Greek teacher, writer and copyist (died 1478)

Greek scholar and philosopher (c. 1470-1517)

Pontic Greek scholar and philosopher (ca 1400–ca 1470)

Ecumenical Patriarch in 1410–1416

theologian, deacon and writer (15th century)

Mazaris (; fl. c. 1415) was a late Byzantine Greek writer known only for having authored a satirical text entitled ''Mazaris' Journey to Hades. Although his identity and first name are unknown, Mazaris has been tentatively identified with at least two known historical personalities of the same name, one Manuel Mazaris, who was a hymnographer and served as protonotarios of Thessaloniki, and one Maximus Mazaris, who was a monk and author of a text on grammatical rules. According to yet another hypothesis, however, these two were actually the same person. Because of this uncertainty, the author o

Byzantine writer (14th-15th century)

Byzantine monk and erudite

Byzantine envoy

Byzantine scholar

Byzantine monk