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Ficino paused translating Plato to translate Hermetic texts
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Prioritizing your reading list in the fifteenth century was wild. Marsilio Ficino was commissioned to translate the entire works of Plato, but dropped everything immediately when he got his hands on a supposed manuscript from Hermes Trismegistus, deeming it infinitely more important.
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