# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gemistus-pletho
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:25:45.748Z

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name: "Gemistus Pletho"
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description: "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."
tagline: "15th-century Byzantine Greek philosopher"
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birthDate: "1355"
deathDate: "1452-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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."