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Plato's
Symposium
was
a literary drinking-party at which guests addressed the nature of love.
Ficino, a devoted follower of Plato, imitated the Symposium at his own literary banquet, the
Convivium.
In a letter to a Florentine nobleman, ... Ficino spells out the
requirements for a good convivium, concluding: 'To what end is all this
written about the convivium? Simply, that we who live
separated lives, though not without vixation [sic], may live together in
happiness as one.'
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