ByzRev 05.2023.N02 doi: 10.17879/byzrev-2023-5260 András Kraft An annotated bibliography of John Italos (fl. 1070s) 1 The Byzantine philosopher John Italos (PBW: Ioannes 66 ) is a prominent figure in the intellectual history of the Christian East. His argumentative rigor and foreign temperament aroused admiration as well as envy among his contemporaries. He excelled at expounding and assessing the classical philosophical heritage. At the same time, he challenged many an estab- lished custom and etiquette among the Constantinopolitan intelligentsia. Italos’ meteoric rise and sudden fall have provoked much discussion among scholars, who try to make sense of his condemnation. As a result, Ita- los’ legacy is a contested one. This extensive bibliography aims to give a state-of-the-art overview of the scholarship on this remarkable medieval philosopher. Italos was born around 1030 in southern Italy and arrived in Constantinople in the 1050s, where he became a disciple of Michael Psellos. He quickly gained a reputation of a gifted and adamant dialectician and was sought af- ter by crowds of students. His fame reached as far as the imperial court; the Emperor Michael VII (r. 1071–1078) and his brother Andronikos Doukas requested the philosopher’s instruction and advice. Italos succeeded Psel- los in leading the imperially sponsored school of philosophy as “Consul of the philosophers” (ὕατ τῶ φσφ) in the mid-1070s. At that time, Italos was first accused of heterodoxy, possibly due to factional ri- valry. He was acquitted owing to favorable political conditions: the em- peror (Michael VII) intervened and ensured that Italos would be acquitted. But the stigma of heterodoxy never left the philosopher, and in March 1082 he was put on trial again. By then political circumstances had changed, and Italos was condemned for heterodoxy by an ecclesiastical synod. Ten (plus one) anathemas were subsequently added to the Synodikon of Orthodoxy,a liturgical document that originally celebrated the restoration of icon vener- ation in the ninth century and that was updated several times starting in the second half of the eleventh century. The final anathema, which explicitly named Italos, was eventually dropped. This omission may reflect a partial 1. This work was produced within the framework of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agree- ment No 101019501. 8