Abstract
This chapter argues that the relations between the Florentine humanists and their scholastic contemporaries were rather complex, and that mutual influences existed between two groups of intellectuals. The context of scholastic philosophy and theology in the Florentine Renaissance has been surprisingly neglected by most modern historians. The idea that the Renaissance was a modern and secular phenomenon became ingrained in intellectual history at least since Burckhardt. Relating the superiority of the will, through the importance of love, to Plato and the Platonists, can indeed be regarded as an anti-intellectualistic reaction to some Aristotelian and Averroist doctrines. Another reaction to scholastic discussions was that of the humanists. In the dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de' Medici, Vincenzo Bandello presents some essential details regarding the recently held dispute. Marsilio Ficino's view seems to reflect the Augustinian and Dionysian arguments presented in medieval authors.Keywords: Burckhardt; Florentine renaissance; Lorenzo de' Medici; Marsilio Ficino; Plato; scholastic philosophy; scholastic theology; Vincenzo Bandello
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