The Florentine revival

Ficino, Pico, Lazzarelli and their circle, reading the newly translated Hermetica as the oldest theology in the world and using it to argue that Christianity had ancient pagan corroboration.

The engine of the Western esoteric tradition as it now exists — and the moment Christian Kabbalah begins, which this app keeps to a footnote: state what it was for (Pico, 1486, conversionist), once, then move on.