Contents: Preface; The Greeks and Renaissance humanism; The pro-Latin apologetics of the Greek émigrés to quattrocento Italy; Pletho's date of death and the burning of his Laws; George Gemistus Pletho and the West: Greek émigrés, Latin scholasticism, and Renaissance humanism; The 'lost' final part of George Amiroutzes' Dialogus de Fide in Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli; A note on George Amiroutzes (c. 1400-c. 1469) and his moral argument against the transmigration of souls; Cardinal Bessarion's own translation of the In Calumniatorem Platonis; Niccolò Perotti and Bessarion's In Calumniatorem Platonis; Cardinal Bessarion's Greek and Latin sources in the Plato-Aristotle controversy of the 15th century and Nicholas of Cusa's relation to the controversy; The pre- and post-history of Cardinal Bessarion's 1469 In Calumniatorem Platonis; A tale of two books: Bessarion's In Calumniatorem Platonis and George of Trebizond's Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis; Aristotle as scribe of nature: the title-page of MS Vat. Lat. 2094; George of Trebizond's critique of Theodore Gaza's translation of the Aristotelian Problemata; Some quattrocento translators of St Basil the Great: Gaspare Zacchi, Episcopus Anonymus, Pietro Balbi, Athanasius Chalkeopoulos, and Cardinal Bessarion; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.