HIS357H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marsilio Ficino, Hagia Sophia, Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Firenze
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Byzantine scholars come into italy and lecture citizens more besides chrysoloras. Play a part in the rehabilitation of plato . In the late 1430s, there are already scholars lecturing on plato. Poliziano, important poet and always with lorenzo de medici. ^ using the ancient world to transform their society for their co-inhabitants of florence; the florentines are more interested in an inner vision of the self, can use the word esoteric. Pico (?) takes knowledge from every branch of knowledge known to man, and puts together a programme used to understand the two realms of the world . 900 theses, and several theologians challenged him considering them to be blasphemous. Exodus from byzantium may 25th, 1453 was an important year: a christian city, Greek scholars escape to italy because they know that there are circles interested in what they have to teach. So constantinople is sacked, and the haghia sophia is turned into a mosque.
