Constantine Paleocappa

Constantine Paleocappa was a 16th-century Byzantine scribe, forger, and counterfeiter.

Paleocappa is believed to be the true author of the work known as the Collection or Bed of Violets (Ἰωνιά), and historically attributed to the 11th-century Byzantine empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa.[1]

Paleocappa is believed to have fabricated this text from material in the Suda, Diogenes Laërtius's Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, the writings of Varinus Phavorinus Camera, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, and Palaephatus.[1]

Paleocappa also produced a forgery of some liturgical texts attributed to Proclus of Constantinople,[2] as well as a 13th-century polemic against the Jews attributed to "Thaddaios Pelusiotes", which was based on an actual 14th-century polemic by Matthew Blastares.[3]

  1. ^ a b Dorandi, Tiziano (2013). Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries. Vol. 50. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107354708. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  2. ^ Johnson, Maxwell E. (2011). Issues in Eucharistic Praying in East and West: Essays in Liturgical and Theological Analysis. Liturgical Press. p. 280. ISBN 9780814662489. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  3. ^ Feldman, Louis Harry; Hata, Gōhei, eds. (1987). Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity. Brill Publishers. p. 380. ISBN 9789004085541. Retrieved 2017-10-21.