 Lefèvre’s Aristotle, like Ficino’s Plato, knew something of the Christian God. In his introduction to the Metaphysics (1494a: d1v), he suggested that Aristotle had prayed to the ens entium, begging for mercy. This emphasis on the coherence of Aristotle’s works throughout the arts cycle and his agreement with Christianity sustained the scholarship of Lefèvre and his students for decades.