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Pico della Mirandola(1463-1494)Lorenzo de Medici andset up the AccademiaPlatonica (Plato’sAcademy) where hetranslated Plato’s worksinto Latin directly fromthe Greek. He went onto translate the works ofPorphyry, Iamblichus,Proclus and Plotinusinto Latin, therebyensuring the continuedsurvival of Pythagoreanthought.That great Neo-Platonist Giovanni Picodella Mirandola regarded Pythagoras as aChristian sage. He equated the peace promisedby Jesus with the Pythagorean peace “in whichall rational souls not only shall come into harmonyin the one mind which is above all minds, but shall insome ineffable way become altogether one. That is thefriendship which the Pythagoreans say is the end ofall philosophy.” Another one of his writings wasthe almost impenetrable Fourteen Conclusionsafter Pythagorean Mathematics.And Leonardo da Vinci, in hisstudies and researches, alsoheld Pythagoras in high esteem,presenting his own proof ofthe Pythagoras theorem (a 2 +b 2 = c 2 ).The hermeticistGiordano Bruno, in his DialoghiItaliani (Italian Dialogues)said that “best and purest isthe world of Pythagoras, more sothan that of Plato.” TommasoCampanella, author of theutopian work “City of theSun” studied Pythagoras withlove and presented himself asthe continuator of that ancienttradition, and Galileo wasable to restore the glory of thePythagoreans in the scientificfield.PostscriptThe Pythagorean school neverre-emerged from the ashesof its destruction and thetragedy was that, for the mostLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and his proof of thePythagoras Theorum.part, its wisdom was a great anachronism.Undoubtedly this was a major factor in itsdecline and the propagation of its teachingswas continued outside the uninitiated. Indeed,Pythagoreanism fell under the weight of its ownmagnitude.Other figures from the early modern period that were influenced by Pythagoras:1. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), 2. Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), 3. GalileoGalilei (1564-1642).The Rosicrucian Beacon -- June 200933