Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficinowas an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was also an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, had enormous influence on the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth19 October 1433
CountryItaly