Gemistus Pletho
15th-century Byzantine Greek philosopher
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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.
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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 l…
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