# Gemistus Pletho

> He brought Plato back to the West at the Council of Florence in 1438, but his real heresy stayed hidden: a secret manuscript circulated only among trusted friends, rejecting Christianity outright for the worship of Zeus, Apollo, and the old gods.

*15th-century Byzantine Greek philosopher*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/gemistus-pletho

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1355
- **Died:** 1452-06-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Georgios Gemistos Plethon was a Greek scholar and philosopher in the dying decades of Byzantium, born around 1355. He became a chief architect of the revival of Greek learning in Western Europe, and in 1438–1439 traveled to the Council of Florence where he reintroduced Plato's ideas to a West that had lost them—though the council's attempt to reconcile the East–West Schism failed. Throughout his life he laid out a political vision in speeches, once declaring "We are Hellenes by race and culture" and proposing a reborn Byzantine Empire run on a utopian Hellenic system centered in Mystras. His last work, the Nomoi or Book of Laws, revealed what he had kept from most: he had abandoned Christianity for the classical Hellenic gods, blended with Zoroastrian wisdom. He died around 1452, called both "the last Hellene" and "the first modern Greek."

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.1 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistus_Pletho)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220313)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Gemistus%20Pletho)
- [Плитон](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)
- [Jordi Gemist Pletó](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Gemist_Plet%C3%B3)
- [Georgios Gemistos Pléthón](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Pl%C3%A9th%C3%B3n)
- [Georgios Gemistos Plethon](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Georgios Gemistos Plethon](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Γεώργιος Γεμιστός ή Πλήθων](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B5%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%AE_%CE%A0%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%B8%CF%89%CE%BD)
- [Gemistos Plethon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Gemisto Pletono](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemisto_Pletono)
- [Pletón](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plet%C3%B3n)
- [Georgios Gemistos Plethon](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Plethon)
- [گیمیستوس پلتو](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88)
- [Georgios Gemistos Plethon](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Gémiste Pléthon](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9miste_Pl%C3%A9thon)
- [Pleton](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleton)
- [Jeórjiosz Jemisztósz Plíthon](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je%C3%B3rjiosz_Jemiszt%C3%B3sz_Pl%C3%ADthon)
- [Giorgio Gemisto Pletone](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Gemisto_Pletone)
- [ゲオルギオス・ゲミストス・プレトン](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AE%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3)
- [გემისტუს პლეთო](https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%9D)
- [게미스토스 플레톤](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B2%8C%EB%AF%B8%EC%8A%A4%ED%86%A0%EC%8A%A4_%ED%94%8C%EB%A0%88%ED%86%A4)
- [Georgius Gemistus](https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgius_Gemistus)
- [Pleton](https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleton)
- [Georgios Gemistos Plethon](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Georgios Gemistos Plethon](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Wikiquote](https://el.wikiquote.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B5%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%A0%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%B8%CF%89%CE%BD)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gemistos_Plethon)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giorgio_Gemisto_Pletone)
- [جيمستوس بليثو](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%88)

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