 Importantly, Ficino's letters to Cavalcanti resulted in the popularization of the term Platonic love in Western Europe.Clement Salaman, a modern translator of Ficino’s letters, notes that, “Platonic Love has passed into common parlance as a love independent of physical attraction, a love central to Ficino’s concept of friendship.” Salaman also remarks that the love to which Finico referred in his letters is "purely spiritual; it was not a polite form of words, still less a reference to homosexual love.It was a love that was all-embracing."