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Georgios Gemistos Plethon

Gemistus Pletho
Benozzo Gozzoli, Pletone, Cappella dei Magi.jpg
Portrait of Gemistus Pletho, detail of a fresco by acquaintance Benozzo Gozzoli, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
Born 1355
Constantinople
Died 1452/1454
Mystras
Era Renaissance philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Neoplatonism
Main interests
Plato's Republic, Ancient Greek religion, Zoroastrianism

Georgius Gemistus (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεμιστός; c. 1355 – 1452/1454), later called Plethon (/ˈplθɒn, -θən/) or Pletho (/ˈplθ/; Πλήθων), was a Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy. He was one of the chief pioneers of the revival of Greek learning in Western Europe. In the dying years of the Byzantine Empire, he advocated a return to the Olympian gods of the ancient world.

He re-introduced Plato's thoughts to Western Europe during the 1438–1439 Council of Florence, a failed attempt to reconcile the East-West schism. Here Pletho met and influenced Cosimo de' Medici to found a new Platonic Academy, which, under Marsilio Ficino, would proceed to translate into Latin all Plato's works, the Enneads of Plotinus, and various other Neoplatonist works.


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