Many thanks to David Fideler for sharing a preliminary draft of his paper on the Platonic Academy of Florence. See also M181.S93, Week 8.

YR	FLORENCE
1390 800 Greek MSs collected by Chancellor Coluccio Salutati
1396 Emanuel Chrysoloras arrived, Prof. of Greek
	brought by Salutati and Palla Strozzi, with more MSs
1398 Arrival of a Greek copy of Euclid's Elements
1400-1450 collection of more Greek MSs 
	from monasteries in Italy, the North, Byzantium
1414 Discovery of Vitruvius books on architecture
1432 Arrival of George Gemisthos Pletho from Byzantium
1444 Creation of Platonic Academy and Laurentian
	Library by Cosimo di Medici
1450 Translation program ordered by Cosimo begun
	by Marsilio Ficino (Corpus Hermeticum,
	Neoplatonists, Chaldean Oracles)
1453 Turks overrun Byzantium, Greeks flee with mss
1457 John Argyropulus arrives in florence to teach Greek
1459 Marsilio Ficino called to Florence by Cosimo
1463 Ficino translates the Corpus Hermeticum, founds Platonic Academy 
1474 Ficino publ. two books on theology
1492 Ferdinand and Isabela of Spain 
	expel Arabs (to Algeria) and Jews (to Provence
	and Italy, esp. Livorno)
1492 Lorenzo de' Medici dies
1499 Ficino dies, end of Platonic Academy