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Leon was surrounded by humanists interested in the topic of Love.

The Chancellor of Florence, Marsilio Ficino commented on Plato ’ s Symposium ( 1474 – 75 ), while Girolamo Benivieni composed his Canzone d ’ amore ( 1486 ), which Pico della Mirandola analyzed soon after.

Equicola ’ s Libro della natura d ’ amore ( 1495 ), Pietro Bembo ’ s Asolani and Francesco Cattani da Diacceto ’ s De amore were published while Judah was writing.

Abravanel ’ s Dialoghi is regarded as the finest of these works.

Menéndez Pelayo describes it as the most monumental work of Platonic philosophy since Plotinus's Enneads.