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Georgios Gemistos Plethon (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεμιστὸς Πλήθων; Latin: Georgius Gemistus Pletho c. 1355 /1360 – 1452/1454), commonly known as Gemistos Plethon, was a Greek scholar and one of the most renowned philosophers of the late Byzantine era. He was a chief pioneer of the revival of Greek scholarship in ...
George Gemistus Plethon was a Byzantine philosopher and humanist scholar whose clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian thought proved to be a seminal influence in determining the philosophic orientation of the Italian Renaissance.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
George Gemistos Plethon was a significant philosopher during the last years of Byzantium (c. 1360–1454). His adopted surname Plethon was deliberately chosen as an allusion to Plato.
- George Karamanolis
Georgius Gemistos (also Plethon or Pletho; in Greek: Γεώργιος Πλήθων Γεμιστός) (c. 1355 – 1452), a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, was one of the chief pioneers of the revival of learning in Western Europe.
Jun 30, 2015 · A review of Hladký's book on the philosophy of Gemistos Plethon, a Byzantine scholar and thinker who combined Platonism and Christianity. The reviewer challenges Hladký's claim that Plethon was a Christian and argues that he was a pagan Platonist.
George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific, but most notably philosophical issues.
May 15, 2017 · George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works...
