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3. Kristeller, The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino, p. 13; Michael J. B. Allen, Plato’s Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino’s Metaphysics and its Sources (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 1995), p. 131.
4. Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (London and New York: Routledge, 1964), p. 13; Allen, Plato’s Third Eye, p. 39;
5. Florian Ebeling, The Secret History of Hermes: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), pp. 59–60.