Talk:Platonic Academy (Florence)

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Name

I made the article name a bit more elegant, I see Marsilio Ficino uses the phrase "Florentine Academy". Was this common enough to count as a WP:COMMONNAME? In which case it would make a better name still than having to disambiguate with brackets as at present. FlagSteward (talk) 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Existence

Probably this article should be deleted, or made into something linked to from items on later historiography: see James Hankins: The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 429-475 141.84.151.226 (talk) 12:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Translation from the Italian

I have made a translation of the entire Italian version of this article. Should I delete everything and copy paste my translation? Pincermitosis (talk) 14:38, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that is advisable, Pincermitosis – the Italian page is (as so often, unfortunately) very poorly sourced indeed, with entire paragraphs innocent of even one solitary citation. I'm sorry that there was an {{expand Italian}} on the page – I'd already removed that once, but not noticed that it had been replaced. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:53, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good point, I'm going to see if I can find good sources to add to the Italian page and also going to salvage the few parts that are properly sourced, if any. Pincermitosis (talk) 17:33, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understand the point you're trying to make regarding the academy being an informal study group, and I'm open to find a replacement for the word "establishment", infact nowhere in the text you removed did I say it was a formal study institution. But this informal institution has been known as Accademia Platonica for the last 400 or so years. For every bit of reference theorising the opposite I can find you against, two scholars, Hankins and Kristeller don't make a whole scholarly consensus.

I think this is mainly a semantic issue and as such we could find better words to describe the events, however, that these people met and discussed platonic philosophy (amongst probably other things) is without a doubt. Also, keep in mind that whatever is the correct term doesn't only depend on what it's correct, but to the term people actually use to refer to it. Pincermitosis (talk) 15:23, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]