[Footnote 43: At the end of the Latin version of Phranzes,
we read a long Greek epistle or declamation of George of
Trebizond, who advises the emperor to prefer Eugenius and
Italy. He treats with contempt the schismatic assembly of
Basil, the Barbarians of Gaul and Germany, who had conspired
to transport the chair of St. Peter beyond the Alps. Was
Constantinople unprovided with a map?]