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Ioane Petritsi

11th–12th centuries · 12th century

Ioane Petritsi was a Georgian Neoplatonist philosopher and translator of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. After working in Byzantium and at the Petritsoni monastery in Bulgaria, he is traditionally said to have taught at the Gelati academy. He translated works of Proclus and Nemesius into Georgian, and his commentary on Proclus's Elements of Theology is a major work of medieval Georgian thought.

Ioane Petritsi
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