  The controversy dragged on with new contributions on Plato’s behalf by Plethon and Michael Apostoles; and on Aristotle’s by Theodore of Gaza, Andronikos Kallistos, and George of Trebizond. All these men were native Greek speakers; and except for Trebizond, they all wrote in their mother tongue. The importance of the controversy for Renaissance philosophy is largely due to Bessarion, who tried, in the work already mentioned, to give a fair hearing to both philosophers (thus reverting to the traditional approach of harmonization), and whose systematic account of Platonism was unprecedented in the Latin literature.