Domizio Calderini, Niccolò Perotti en de controverse tussen Platonici en Aristotelici in het Quattrocento Domizio Calderini, Niccolò Perotti and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy in the Quattrocento KU Leuven
During the Council of Ferrara-Florence, in the first half of 1439, the Greek scholar and philosopher George Gemistos Plethon (1460-1454), who was attending the Council in the retinue of Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus, wrote a short treatise in Greek about the differences between Plato and Aristotle, De differentiis Platonis et Aristotelis. Pletho argues that both Plato and Aristotle are foreign to Christianity, but Aristotle ...