[176] I owe the greater part of the facts presented in this sketch of Gemistos to Fritz Schultze's Geschichte der Philosophie der Renaissance, vol. i.
[177] See Schultze, p. 53.
[178] See Schultze, p. 77, note.
[179] Ibid. p. 107.
[180] Γεμιστός and γεμίζω, Πλήθων and πλήθω. Both mean to be full. Plato, however, is said to have been called Πλάτων, because of his broad shoulders or his breadth of eloquence.
[181] See the translation of Plotinus by Ficino, quoted by Schultze, p. 76: 'Magnus Cosmus, Senatûs consulto patriæ pater, quo tempore concilium inter Græcos atque Latinos sub Eugenio pontifice Florentiæ tractabatur, philosophum Græcum nomine Gemistum, cognomine Plethonem quasi Platonem alterum, de mysteriis Platonicis disputantem frequenter audivit. E cujus ore ferventi sic afflatus est protinus, sic animatus, ut inde Academiam quandam altâ mente conceperit, hanc opportuno primum tempore pariturus.'
[182] Schultze, p. 92. His secular name was Georgios Scholarios.
[183] See [Vol. I., Age of the Despots], pp. 134, 135, and [Sketches in Italy and Greece], article 'Rimini.'
[184] Vita di Palla di Noferi Strozzi, p. 284.
[185] See Vespasiano, p. 486.