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Excerpt from Marsilio Ficino, Philosopher, and Head of the Platonic Academy of Florence In 1439 Eugenius IV transferred to Florence from Ferrara the Council which he had called to discuss the question of uniting the two great branches of the Catholic Church, the Greek and the Roman' This was a question that had come up at intervals ever since the separation,1 a question that still agitates the Catholic world. On the part of Eugenius, the summoning of the Council was an effort to reinstate papal authority over the Eastern Church and to restore the clerical juris diction of Rome over Constantinople. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.