Talk:Gemistus Pletho
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The article on Plethon says "While in Florence [that is, 1438] Plethon wrote De Differentiis, a description of the differences between Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of God. Scholarios **later** defended Aristotle and convinced emperor Manuel II Palaeologus that Plethon's support for Plato amounted to heresy." But Manuel died in 1425!
Something wrong here!
- Looks like I wrote that...I'll try to figure out what I did wrong :) Thanks! Adam Bishop 06:22, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
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- Alright, sorry for the extreme delay, I realize what I did - I just misread a bit in the source I used. (All that stuff about Manuel happened before Florence, so as a result the info in the article was out of order!) Adam Bishop 05:01, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
1) Changed "pseudo-polytheistic" to "eclectic polytheistic" 2) added a link on a decent UofOklahoma paper on De Differentiis 3) and one of the pleiad of modern Greek works on him. 4) Also added this, from same:"In 1466 some of his Italian disciples, headed by Sigismondo Malatesta, stole his remains from Mistra and interred them in the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, "so that the great Teacher may be among free men". 5) Further ammended the following to indicate that it was not simply a copy burned in protest but the original and only extant version that was destroyed: "and its contents lost to mankind."
