caption death_date era school_tradition influences nationality main_interests birth_date image article_title name region
monument of ioane petritsi in tbilisi 12th century medieval philosophy neoplatonism aristotle , plato georgian philosophy , translation , mysticism , asceticism , astrology , literature , poetry , hymns , orthodoxy c. georgia 11th century chimchimi , meskheti , kingdom of john petritsi -lrb- 17 -rrb- . jpg ioane petritsi
 ioane petritsi western philosophy
ioane petritsi

ioane petritsi -lrb- -rrb- also referred as john petritsi was a georgian neoplatonist philosopher of the 11th-12th century , active in the byzantine empire and kingdom of georgia , best known for his translations of proclus , along with an extensive commentary .
in later sources , he is also referred to as ioane chimchimeli -lrb- -rrb- .
