| In this Vasari was not thought to be credible. If Ficino had any influence over Botticelli then one should remember his violent Apology to Savonarola where he called the friar who was thought to be a prophet an anti-Christ. With regard to Origene, adhesion to his texts might raise the problem of the Primavera being an allegory of the Immaculate Conception (see above): for the father of the Church, Maria was not free from the original sin. |