Ficino's Commentary on the Symposium on the Platonic Theology

Marcellio Ficino was a member of the Florentine Platonist circle. In his commentary on Plato's symposium, he calls beauty "the blossom of goodness" The lust to touch the body is not part of love, but rather wantonness and derangement. Pico della Merandela also wrote a commentary on a text about love this time.