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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...
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  • circle had made acquaintance with the Neoplatonic philosopher, George Gemistos Plethon, whose discourses upon Plato and the Alexandrian mystics so fascinated...
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    flowering during the Palaeologan Renaissance, including the teachings of Gemistos Plethon. The city also attracted artists and architects of the highest quality...
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    by the Nicaenean elite and in the intellectual circles by Georgios Gemistos Plethon and John Argyropoulos, that sowed the seed for it. Today, the modern...
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    are not set in stone either. We see that when we look at Georgios Gemistos-Plethon, at the beginning of the 15th century who is the link between the ancients...
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    onward (from Anna Komnene, Michael Psellos, John III Vatatzes, George Gemistos Plethon and several others) prove that the revival of the term Hellene (as...
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    followers including Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonist philosopher influential among the academics of Italy...
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  • philosophy and his view of love became more popular, spurred on by Georgios Gemistos Plethon during the Councils of Ferrara and Firenze in 1438–1439. Later in 1469...
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    Woodhouse, George Gemistos Plethon, the Last of the Hellenes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 33 Woodhouse, George Gemistos Plethon, p. 13 Miscellanea...
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    1475), first dean of the University of Ferrara, Naples and Rome George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355/1360 – 1452/54), teacher of Bessarion George of Trebizond...
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    few traces of Hellene (Έλληνας), such as in the writings of George Gemistos Plethon, who abandoned Christianity and in whose writings culminated the secular...
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    Metochites → Gregory Palamas → Nilos Kabasilas → Demetrios Kydones → Gemistos Plethon → Basilios Bessarion → Johannes Regiomontanus → Domenico Maria Novara...
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    influenced Medieval scholastic philosophers. During the Renaissance, George Gemistos Plethon brought Plato's original writings to Florence from Constantinople in...
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  • 1340–1413) (Catalan) Manuel Chrysoloras (c.1355–1415) (Greek) George Gemistos Plethon (c.1355–1452/1454) (Greek) Niccolò de' Niccoli (1364–1437) (Italian)...
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    circle had made acquaintance with the Neoplatonic philosopher George Gemistos Plethon, whose discourses upon Plato and the Alexandrian mystics so fascinated...
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    Siniossoglou: radical Platonism in Byzantium: illumination and utopia in Gemistos Plethon". Archiv für Mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur. 19: 210–243....
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    who expanded the criticism of Aristotle in his dialogue Phlorentius. Gemistos Plethon was exiled by Manuel II to the Despotate of Morea, an important intellectual...
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    Thessalonica Joseph Gill, Personalities of the Council of Florence, 68 George Gemistos Plethon, the Last of the Hellenes, by CM Woodhouse, Clarendon Press, Oxford...
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  • mentioned in the work On Virtues (Greek: Περὶ ἀρετῶν) by Georgios Gemistos Plethon. Look up sophrosyne in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seven virtues...
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  • the Historical Museum in Moscow. The Byzantine philosopher Georgios Gemistos Plethon († 1452), a Platonist and opponent of Aristotelianism, disapproved...
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    Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-1-4223-7224-1. Merry, Bruce (2002). "George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355/60–1452)". In Amoia, Alba; Knapp, Bettina L. (eds.). Multicultural...
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    by the arrival at the otherwise ineffective Council of Florence of Gemistos Plethon, who seemed a dazzling figure to the Florentine intellectuals.[citation...
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  • LXXXIII opens with images of water and light, drawn from Pindar, George Gemistos Plethon, John Scotus Eriugena, the mermaid carvings of Pietro Lombardo and...
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  • Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-1-4223-7224-1. Merry, Bruce (2002). "George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355/60–1452)". In Amoia, Alba; Knapp, Bettina L. (eds.). Multicultural...
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