The Union was ratified at the Council of Florence in 1439 which John attended with 700 followers including Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonist philosopher influential among the academics of Italy.
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To secure protection against the Ottomans, he visited Pope Eugene IV and consented to the union of the Greek and Roman churches.
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According to some interpretations, John VIII would be also portrayed in Piero della Francesca's Flagellation.
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