Editing Gemistos Plethon (section)

===Early life and career===
Georgios Gemistos Plethon was born in [[Constantinople]] ''circa'' 1355/1360.<ref name="Merry">Merry, Bruce (2002) "George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355/60–1452)" in Amoia, Alba & Knapp, Bettina L., ''Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook''. Greenwood Publishing Group.</ref> Raised in a family of well-educated Orthodox Christians,<ref name="de Biasi 2011 p. 19">{{cite book | last=de Biasi | first=J.L. | title=The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis: Using Tarot Talismans for Ritual & Initiation | publisher=Llewellyn Publications | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-7387-2086-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbqSPpAj0sEC&pg=PA19 | access-date=2023-02-16 | page=19}}</ref> he studied in Constantinople and [[Adrianople]], before returning to Constantinople and establishing himself as a teacher of philosophy.<ref name="Hanegraaff p.31">Hanegraaff p.31</ref> Adrianople, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] capital following its capture by the Ottoman [[Sultan Murad I]] in 1365, was a centre of learning modelled by Murad on the caliphates of [[Cairo]] and [[Baghdad]].<ref name="Merry"/> Plethon admired [[Plato]] (Greek: ''Plátōn'') so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name ''Plethon''.<ref>Πλήθων: "the full", pronounced {{IPA|el|ˈpliθon|}}. Plethon is also an archaic translation of the [[modern Greek language|Greek]] γεμιστός ''gemistós'' ("full, stuffed")</ref> Some time before 1410, Emperor [[Manuel II Paleologos]] sent him to [[Mystras|Mystra]] in the [[Despotate of Morea]] in the southern Peloponnese,<ref name="CambridgePolitical">{{cite book |pages=77–8 |editor-last=Burns |editor-first=James Henderson  |title=The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought C. 350 – C. 1450 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1991}}</ref> which remained his home for the rest of his life. In Constantinople, he had been a senator, and he continued to fulfil various public functions, such as being a judge, and was regularly consulted by rulers of Morea. Despite suspicions of heresy from the Church, he was held in high Imperial favour.<ref name="Hanegraaff p.31"/>

In Mystra he taught and wrote philosophy, astronomy, history and geography, and compiled digests of many classical writers. His pupils included [[Bessarion]] and [[George Scholarius]] (later to become [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople|Patriarch of Constantinople]] and Plethon's enemy). He was made chief magistrate by [[Theodore II Palaiologos, Lord of Morea|Theodore II]].<ref name="Merry"/> He produced his major writings during his time in Italy and after his return.<ref name="Hanegraaff p.32">Hanegraaff p.32</ref>