The Gertrude Stein of 15th Century Florence was the Fabulous Marsilio Ficino

History reinvents itself; sometimes for better; sometimes for worse.

The Platonic Academy of Florence and The Literary Salon of Paris

History reinvents itself; sometimes for better; sometimes for worse.

In this case, it’s factually better to realize that our early understanding of Renaissance Florence’s Neoplatonic Academy was overly romanticized and mythologized—but in the correction, I lost something important to me and …