These and similar ideas were congenial to many Renaissance thinkers, and Neoplatonism spread from Florence to other Italian centres. The work of Ficino, who translated Plotinus into Latin in 1492, and of Pico della Mirandola helped to popularize Neoplatonic ideas and the transcendentalism of Plethon's philosophy appealed to those who were looking for a unifying principle and already using magic, hermetic theories, and heterodox Christian mysticism as elements to further that.