Editing Council of Florence (section)

==Aftermath==
The struggle for East–West union at Ferrara and Florence, while promising, never bore fruit, largely due to the activities of [[Mark of Ephesus]]. While progress toward union in the East continued to be made in the following decades, all hopes for a proximate reconciliation were dashed with the [[Fall of Constantinople|fall of Constantinople in 1453]], when [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultan]] [[Mehmed II]] appointed the strongly anti-unionist [[Gennadius Scholarius]] as the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]].  

Perhaps the council's most important historical legacy was the lectures on Greek classical literature given in Florence by many of the delegates from Constantinople, including the [[Platonism in the Renaissance|Neoplatonist]] [[Gemistus Pletho]]. These greatly helped the progress of [[Renaissance humanism]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_6PYWPWWhrUC&dq=%22council+of+florence%22+humanism&pg=PA13|title=Constantinople and the West: Essays on the Late Byzantine (Palaeologan) and Italian Renaissances and the Byzantine and Roman Churches|first=Deno John|last=Geanakoplos|date=Dec 27, 1989|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=9780299118846 |accessdate=Dec 27, 2022|via=Google Books}}</ref>