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The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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Nee enim tarn numeranda veterum
testimonia sunt quam ponderanda.
Poliziano, Misc. I. 39
There has never been much doubt among Renaissance scholars about the leading role played by Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonic philosophy in the cultural life of the High Renaissance. From the time of his first biographer, Giovanni Corsi, Ficino's work of recovering and disseminating Platonism was held to be one of the great achievements of Medici patronage. The publication history of his translations and other writings during the early modern period attests to the widespread interest they aroused, not only among professional philosophers, but also among educated persons in general.
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I am grateful to Sebastiano Gentile, Jill Kraye, and Paul Oskar Kristeller for reading an earlier version of this paper and offering useful criticisms. The final version could not have been completed without the generous support of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the American Council of Learned Societies. In the notes I have made use of the following abbreviations:
ASF = Archivio di Stato, Florence
BAV = Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City
BNCF = Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence
DBI = Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Rome, 1960-.
Laur. = Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Florence
MAP = Florence, Archivio di Stato, Mediceo avanti il Principato
Ricc. = Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence
RIS = Rerum italicarum scriptores
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