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
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.
He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?