 Despite the claims of modern revisionist historians, there is no evidence that Ficino was erotically attracted to men.Consistent with his life's task of reconciling Platonism with Catholicism, Ficino rejected physical expressions of love between two men as a “wicked crime.” “Love and the desire for physical union,” Ficino wrote, are “not identical impulses, but…opposite ones.” Further, Ficino condemned sodomy in "Convivium"  and faithfully adhered to the precepts of Catholic moral teaching regarding sexuality.Ficino died on 1 October 1499 at Careggi.