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DUCAS (15th cent.)

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DUCAS (15th cent.) , See also:Byzantine historian, flourished under See also:Constantine XIII. (XI.) Dragases, the last See also:emperor of the See also:East, about 1450. The See also:dates of his See also:birth and See also:death are unknown. He was the See also:grandson of See also:Michael Ducas (see above). After the fall of See also:Constantinople, he was employed in various See also:diplomatic See also:missions by Dorino and Domenico Gateluzzi, princes of See also:Lesbos, where he had taken See also:refuge. He was successful in securing a semi-See also:independence for Lesbos until 1462, when it was taken and annexed to See also:Turkey by See also:Sultan Mahommed II. It is known that Ducas survived this event, but there is no See also:record of his subsequent See also:life. He was the author of a See also:history of the See also:period 1341–1462; his See also:work thus continues that of See also:Gregoras and Cantacuzene, and supplements Phrantzes and Chalcondyles. There is a preliminary See also:chapter of See also:chronology from See also:Adam to See also:John See also:Palaeologus I. Although barbarous in See also:style, the history of Ducas is both judicious and trustworthy, and it is the most valuable source for the closing years of the See also:Greek See also:empire. The See also:account of the See also:capture of Constantinople is of See also:special importance. Ducas was a strong supporter of the See also:union of the Greek and Latin churches, and is very See also:bitter against those who rejected even the See also:idea of appealing to the See also:West for assistance against the See also:Turks.

The history, preserved (without a See also:

title) in a single See also:Paris MS., was first edited by I. Bullialdus (Bulliaud) (Paris, 1649) ; later See also:editions are in the See also:Bonn Corpus scriptorum Hist. Byz., by I. See also:Bekker (1834) and See also:Migne, Patrologia Graeca, See also:civil. The Bonn edition contains a 15th See also:century See also:Italian See also:translation by an unknown author, found by See also:Leopold See also:Ranke in one of the See also:libraries of See also:Venice, and sent by him to Bekker.

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