The Preface of Georgius Benignus Salviatus, professor of the arts and sacred Theology, to the very insightful Rhythm of the great LORENZO de' Medici:

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FRANCESCO Berlinghieri (who described the globe brilliantly), a man indeed learned and an excellent friend, brought to me in your name, O magnanimous Lorenzo, a poem truly most profound, through which you have revealed the greatness of your divine mind to all ages. For indeed, in this very poem, the divinity of Plato, as you have completed it so aptly and so ornately, lies hidden. It truly smells of Aristotelian gravity itself. There is, indeed, in it the outstanding and excellent mental acuity of the very subtle Scotus himself: for who would resolve such a doctrine in so few words, as you have done? Who would encompass the primary questions of Theology, and truly the most arduous ones, in such a short poem? Who, finally, could have touched upon those weightiest doubts with such charm and with such wit of the vernacular tongue? But this gift was transmitted to you by the breathing of that Jupiter, that is, of the one supreme God, the creator of all things, and by the oracle of the true celestial Apollo, Christ Jesus, our redeemer.