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- books?vid=ISBN978-0-8122-1976-0 quote "Drawing on a different period of ancient, yet Christian, Greek history, the Athenian-born scholar Demetrius Chalcondyles delivered an exhortation for crusade and the recovery of his homeland. At the end of the first of his “Discourses on the inauguration of Greek studies at Padua University” in 1463, Chalcondyles calls on Venice and “all of the Latins” to aid the Greeks against “the abominable, monstrous, and impious barbarian Turks.” He does this by reminding the Latins how the Byzantine Greeks once came to Italy’s aid against their supposed oppressors in the Gothic Wars : just as she [Greece] had empended in their behalf [the Latins] all of her most precious and outstanding possessions liberally and without any parsimony, and had restored with her hand and force of arms the state of Italy, long ago oppressed by the Goths, they [the Latins] should in the same way now be willing to raise up prostrate and afflicted Greece and liberate it by arms from the hands of the barbarians. Calling attention to Greece’s glorious and magnanimous past while asking the Latins to come to its aid, Chalcondyles seems not to be begging for help so much as calling in an overdue debt. Moreover, like Bessarion, he reminds the Latins of the unity that once existed between Greek East and Latin West.".