The dispute between the Platonists and the Aristotelians, which had been provoked by Gemistus Pletho and then settled, the philosophy and literary work of Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine Academy, the reconciliation of the antique philosophy with Christianity, these all are parts of that Platonism which formed the main trend of the philosophy of the Renaissance, apart from the continuation of medieval Scholasticism and philosophic natural science. It was connected with the Humanist interest in classic Antiquity and profoundly influenced religion, arts and the political theory of Renaissance times. It was not a simple revival of Platonism and Neo-Platonism, but mainly a new conception of the question of God, man and the world, which harmonised with previous medieval thought and was important for the further history of European culture.