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AMBROSE THE CAMALDULIAN

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AMBROSE THE CAMALDULIAN , the See also:common name of AMBROGIO TRAVERSAR1 (1386-1439), See also:French ecclesiastic, See also:born near See also:Florence at the See also:village of See also:Portico. At the See also:age of fourteen he entered the Camaldulian See also:Order in the monastery of Sta Maria degli Angeli, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist. In See also:Greek literature his See also:master was See also:Emmanuel Chrysoloras. He became See also:general of the order in 1431, and was a leading See also:advocate of the papacy. This attitude he showed clearly when he attended the See also:council of See also:Basel as See also:legate of See also:Eugenius IV. So strong was his hostility to some of the delegates that he described Basel as a western See also:Babylon. He likewise supported the See also:pope at See also:Ferrara and Florence, and worked hard in the See also:attempt to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches. Though this cause was unsuccessful, Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new See also:humanism which was growing up within the See also:church. Voigt says that he was the first See also:monk in Florence in whom the love of letters and See also:art became predominant over his ecclesiastical views. Thus while among his own colleagues he seemed merely a hypocritical and arrogant See also:priest, in his relations with his See also:brother humanists, such as Cosimo de See also:Medici, he appeared as the student of classical antiquities and especially of Greek theological authors. His See also:chief See also:works are: Hodoeporicon, an See also:account of a See also:journey taken by the pope's command, during which he visited the monasteries of See also:Italy; a See also:translation of See also:Palladius' See also:Life of See also:Chrysostom; of Nineteen Sermons of Ephraem Syrus; of the See also:Book of St See also:Basil on Virginity. A number of See also:MSS. remain in the library of St See also:Mark at See also:Venice.

He died on the 20th of See also:

October 1439 See G. Voigt, See also:Die Wiederbelebung See also:des klass. Altertums (2 Vols., 3rd ed., 1893) ; his Epistolae were published by Cannato (Florence, 1759) with a life by Mehus; Bollandist Bibl. See also:hag. See also:lat. (1898), 63; A. Masius, Ober die Stellung des Kamaldulensers Ambrogio Txaversari zum Papst Eugen IV. and zum Basler Kanzil (See also:Dobeln, 1888); See also:Savigny, Geschichte rom. Rechts, Mittel. (185o), vi. 422-424.

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