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grbs-16954	Kennedy, Scott	Redating Bessarion’s Against the Slanderer of Plato: His Defense of Plato and Platonic Politics	2024	34	.pdf	application/pdf	12095	544	60	528–561 ISSN 2159-3159 Article copyright held by the author(s) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Redating Bessarion’s Against the Slanderer of Plato: His Defense of Plato and Platonic Politics Scott Kennedy HE CONTROVERSY between George of Trebizond and Bessarion over Plato has long fascinated scholars as a defining moment in the Renaissance and the translation of Plato from Byzantium to the West.1 In 1458, George’s Com- parison of the Two Philosophers Aristotle and Plato had attacked Plato as fundamentally incompatible both doctrinally and politically with Christianity, claiming that Platonists such as Bessarion’s neopagan teacher George Gemistos Plethon had caused the loss of Byzantium and would soon cause the fall of the West.2	cache/grbs-16954.pdf	txt/grbs-16954.txt