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Georgius Gemistus Plethon

(c. 1355—1452)

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Bessarion

Bessarion  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
(1399/1400–1472)Born at Trebizond of a modest family, the young Bessarion was noticed by Metropolitan Dositheus, who took him with him to Constantinople in c.1415. There he studied Rhetoric and ...
Gemistus Plethon

Gemistus Plethon (c.1360–1452)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

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2005
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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
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433 words

(c.1360–1452)

Georgios Gemistos, surnamed Plethon, was certainly the most remarkable figure of 15th-c. Greek culture. He was

George Scholarius

George Scholarius  

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(c.1405–c.1472), Patr. of Constantinople. At the Council of Florence in 1439 he supported the scheme for reunion, but later he opposed all such projects. He became a monk c.1450, taking the name of ...
Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino  

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(1433–99),Italian humanist and philosopher, whose Neoplatonic views influenced Reuchlin and Colet and were an inspiration to many English poets, including Sidney and Milton.

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