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The Platonic academy itself was closed under the Emperor Justinian, the same year, 529 AD, as Josef Pieper (1960) said, that the first monastery was founded in Italy by St. A major beachhead is established with Ficino and his Platonic Academy, whose existence Levi does not question although he cites the work of James Hankins, with the apogee of Italian humanism reached in Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man. When the author writes, "Indeed, the most celebrated thinkers of the fifteenth-century Renaissance - individuals like Cristoforo Landino, Angelo Poliziano, and Lorenzo de' Medici - were members of his newly founded Platonic Academy at Careggi," (9-10) it is clear that she has not realized the importance of Hankins's work on the difficulty of coming to a meaningful definition of the Florentine Platonic "Academy. |
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