Book

The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism

Essay reframing George Gemistos Plethon as the origin point of Renaissance Platonic Orientalism, making the later Ficino translation moment derivative of the 1438-39 Byzantine event.

Author: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Type: Book
Written: 2009
Edition: 2009
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Language: English
Tradition: Platonism
Identifiers: ISBN9789056295721

Where to find it

Cambridge Core — chapter page in 'Hermes in the Academy' (Amsterdam University Press, 2009)
UvA-DARE institutional repository record for the chapter