#it's just Ficino takes his veneration a few giant leaps further than anyone else
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Plato and Socrates as unordained high-priests - Ficino, I am once again asking how it is you were not done for heresy until the very end of your life.
#the acceptance of the pre-Christian philosophers within the scope of Christian theological world building was very well established by 1400s#obviously - there were so many early church councils on the matter! Augustine did a lot for Aristotle etc. etc.#so did Jerome and other early church fathers#it's just Ficino takes his veneration a few giant leaps further than anyone else#and that's the line of heresy he was walking#venerating them as if they were saints - which we know he did#Ficino#Marsilio Ficino#Marsilio Blogging#obscure early modern Florence blogging#early modern florence#early modern italy#early modern history#15th century
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