De lo amore celeste

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"De lo amore celeste" (Of Heavenly Love) is a work by Girolamo Benivieni, an Italian poet of the Renaissance. He was part of the Florentine Medici circle and a close associate of prominent humanists like Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.12

Benivieni's "De lo amore celeste" is a poetic summary of Ficino's commentary on Plato's Symposium. This work was influential, spreading the ideas of Platonism to other writers of the Renaissance and beyond. After converting to the teachings of Girolamo Savonarola, Benivieni revised his earlier, more sensual poetry and also wrote religious works.13

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…Benivieni summarized in the canzone “De lo amore celeste” (“Of Heavenly Love”), and this in turn became the subject of an extensive commentary by Pico della Mirandola. Thus, through all these sources, Platonism reached many other writers, including the Italians Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione and the English poet Edmund…
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…Benivieni summarized in the canzone “De lo amore celeste” (“Of Heavenly Love”), and this in turn became the subject of an extensive commentary by Pico della Mirandola. Thus, through all these sources, Platonism reached many other writers, including the Italians Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione and the English poet Edmund…
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