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posed no threat to Christian belief. Neoplatonism But the Italians had not only furnished a set of scholarly techniques: they had also opened new intellectual horizons. Lessons were drawn from the commentaries of Plato and Plotinus undertaken in Florence by Marsilio Ficino (1433–99), which affirmed the power of human will and asserted the primacy of love over reason. Ficino’s synthesis of Platonism and Christianity was first transmitted in Latin by Fichet and in French notably by Symphorien Champier