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Marsilio Ficino · Claude AI
Plato, the father of philosophers, having completed the eighty-first year of his age, died on the seventh of November, his own birthday, as he reclined at a banquet after the dishes had been cleared away. This banquet, which holds together both the birthday and the anniversary of Plato, all the ancient Platonists down to the times of Plotinus and Porphyry renewed every year. But after Porphyry these solemn feasts were neglected for twelve hundred years. At last, in our own day, the most illustrious Lorenzo de' Medici, intending to renew the Platonic banquet, appointed Francesco Bandini master of the feast. And so, when Bandini had resolved to keep the seventh of November, he received nine Platonist guests with royal pomp at the villa at Careggi: Antonio degli Agli, bishop of Fiesole; Ficino the physician; Cristoforo Landino the poet; Bernardo Nuzzi the rhetorician; Tommaso Benci; our …
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