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Gemistus Plethon, Georgius (c.1355–1452), scholar. From the beginning of the 15th cent. he lived in Mistra in the Peloponnese. He had a great veneration for the teaching of Plato, and when, in 1438–9, he attended the Council of Florence as one of the E. spokesmen, he was welcomed by some of the Italian humanists. His ‘Laws’ was modelled on that of Plato. He also wrote in defence of the E. doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

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Georgius Gemistus Pletho

Georgius Gemistus Pletho , c.1355-1452, Byzantine scholar and philosopher, b. Constantinople. He represented the Orthodox Eastern Church at the Council of Florence in 1439, led Cosimo de' Medici to found the Florentine Academy, and inspired the enthusiastic study of Plato that characterized the Italian Renaissance. In his Laws he advocated a polytheism similar to that of the ancient Greeks. He rejected Aristotle's criticisms of Plato but did not always distinguish Plato's doctrine from the Neoplatonic.

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