Bessarion - and Virgil (Bessarion E) immediately north of it

Lat: 14.9°N, Long: 37.3°W, Diam: 10 km, Depth: 2 km, Rükl: 19

Basilius Bessarion (January 2, 1403 – November 18, 1472), a Roman Catholic Cardinal Bishop and the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, was one of the illustrious Greek scholars who contributed to the great revival of letters in the 15th century.
Bessarion E (the bowl-shaped crater just north of Bessarion itself) was called Virgil ("a great Roman poet (70-19 B.C.)") by Wilkins and Moore, but the IAU did not accept that name.
Greek lettered hills and hillocks in the neighborhood of Bessarion: the most nearby one is Bessarion Eta south-southeast of Bessarion. Between Bessarion and Bessarion G (west of Bessarion) are two hillocks once known as Bessarion Zeta and Bessarion Theta. East-southeast of Bessarion are two hills once known as Bessarion Xi and Bessarion Lambda. See also chart SLC E4 (System of Lunar Craters, 1966).
Not mentioned in the SLC E3 and SLC F3 charts is the hillock east of Bessarion D, which is nicknamed Bessarion D hillock by D.Caes. See: http://bit.ly/2uLU44U (also captured on Chart 21 - page 55, in the 21st Century Atlas of the Moon, C.A.Wood, M.J.S.Collins).

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Overwhelmed by Goodies (lower photograph shows the rare bottle-shaped crater Bessarion B as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

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