The revival of Greek Wisdom in the Renaissance

Detail from a fresco painted by Benozzo Gozzoli of the procession with Lorenzo the Magnificent leading on the eastern wall of the Chapel of the Magi, Medici Riccardi Palace, Florence — The court of the Medici included Greek Platonist like Gemistos Plethon (top left). See wikipedia for details.

The seminal influence of Byzantine Platonists on the Western Renaissance is often discounted these days.

Join us Thursday evening (7 pm, 14 July) at this Greek Community seminar and find out just how important were these Greek mystics to the revival of the mathematical sciences in the West.

UPDATE: watch the recording here.