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The Medieval Church · 1474
On the Christian Religion
Marsilio Ficino · 1433–1499
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What it is
An argument that religion is natural to humanity and that Christianity perfects what the Platonists and the ancient sages half-saw.
Why it lasted
The manifesto of Renaissance Christian Platonism, by the priest who translated all of Plato into Latin.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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