The Platonic Circle's Interest in Love

Benevianni wove ideas from Ficino into his verses, which were a kind of philosophical updating of the aforementioned Donna Meperga. Pico argues that even irrational animals can experience love, which causes them to mate. Even if physical attractiveness is not truly good or beautiful, it's merely seeming beautiful as enough to spark genuinely erotic desire. The Platonic circle's interest in these rather abstract questions of love was confirmed by the work of Francesco Catani di De Cetto.