Preface List of Figures Abbreviations List of Original Publications Part 1 General Trends 1 Criticism and Biblical Humanism in Quattrocento Italy 2 The Pro-Latin Apologetics of the Greek Émigrés to Quattrocento Italy 3 Humanism and the Fifth Lateran Council 4 Science and Religion Part 2 Translators at Work 5 Some Notes on Pietro Balbi 6 Quality Control in Renaissance Translations: A Note of Pietro Balbi to Cardinal Oliviero Carafa 7 Some Quattrocento Translators of St. Basil the Great: Gaspare Zacchi, Episcopus Anonymus, Pietro Balbi, Athanasius Chalkeopoulos, and Cardinal Bessarion Part 3 The Role of the Augustinians 8 The Augustinian Platonists 9 Giles of Viterbo as alter Orpheus 10 Hermes Trismegistus, Rome, and the Myth of Europa: An Unknown Text of Giles of Viterbo Part 4 The Fathers in the Fifteenth Century (and Beyond) 11 The De doctrina christiana and Renaissance Rhetoric 12 Marsilio Ficino and Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio evangelica 13 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in Mid-Quattrocento Rome 14 The Letters of Ignatius of Antioch as a Philological and Epistemological Issue from the Reformation to Today Bibliography Index Manuscriptorum Index Nominum.