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The revival of Christian Platonism was the most important philosophical and theological movement of the later fifteenth century. Its chief protagonist was Marsilio Ficino, a Florentine humanist who had a number of patrons and followers in Rome.
The presentation copy of Marsilio Ficino's Letters (really letter-treatises on Platonic themes) was probably copied by Bastiano Salvini for Cardinal Francesco della Rovere (one of Ficino's Roman patrons, later Sixtus IV). It was illuminated by Francesco Rosselli. The portrait medallion by Francesco Rosselli, shown here, depicts Cosimo de'Medici, Ficino's most important early patron.
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