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Renaissance

Italy · 15th-17th c.

Marsilio Ficino

Translator of the complete Plotinus into Latin and author of the Theologia Platonica, the central conduit of Neoplatonism into the Renaissance.

Basilios Bessarion

Cardinal and Byzantine émigré whose In calumniatorem Platonis defends Plato, and by extension the Platonic tradition, against George of Trebizond.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Author of the Oratio and the 900 Conclusiones, syncretizing Neoplatonism with Kabbalah and scholastic theology.

Agostino Steuco

Coins "philosophia perennis" in a work tracing a single ancient theology through the Platonic and Neoplatonic line.

Francesco Patrizi

Author of a systematic Neoplatonic cosmology opposing Aristotelianism in the late Italian Renaissance.

Ralph Cudworth

Cambridge Platonist whose True Intellectual System of the Universe carries the tradition into 17th-century England.