Reading La Primavera
La PrimaveraTHE FINDING of Botticelli’s hidden symbolic message provided a clear direction and the research which followed refined it. An important letter written by Ficino to Lorenzo Minore in the winter/spring of 1477/8 fits well with the direction and resulting analysis.
MinoreLa Primavera and Ficino’s instructive letter to Lorenzo Minore date to a period of strain in the affairs of Florence, a time when Ficino was spreading his perennial philosophy to the most influential men in Italy and throughout Europe.
La PrimaveraMinoreThe Magnificent had lost little time, for fourteen months after Giuliano’s death, Lorenzo was betrothed to Giuliano’s intended bride, cementing a commercially and politically advantageous alliance. Lorenzo’s betrothal would have been the ide
