Academy of Florence
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Academy of Florence
Circle gathered around Ficino between 1462 and 1494, in a villa at Careggi put at their disposal by Cosimo de’ Medici. It was a central intellectual influence in the Italian Renaissance, its main activities being the translation, study, and reinterpretation of Platonic and Neoplatonic writings.
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