ABSTRACT
In order to understand well the Laws of George Gemisttos Plethon it is, first, appropriate to summarize what we know about this text. According to Scholarios, who provided a detailed description before he let it burn, it was divided into three parts or books in the ancient sense. Each book had also the heading: ‘Plethon’s First Book of Laws’ and so forth, all beginning with the same general introductory sentence. According to Scholarios, who provided a detailed description before he let it burn, it was divided into three parts or books in the ancient sense. The Laws, especially in its philosophical passages, seems to be a workbook rather than a sacred book. One might argue, as Fabio Pagani has recently done, that it is possible to determine the real intention of Plethon’s Laws by the fact that Gemistos erased and altered passages in classical texts, most notably in the works of Plato, the ic Hymns and the Hymns of Proclus.
