The Italian philosopher and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) influenced Renaissance thought through his translation and explication of the works of Plato. Marsilio Ficino was born at Figline near Florence on Oct. 19, 1433, the son of a prominent...

Florentine Academy "Florentine Academy," or Platonic Academy of Florence, is the name usually applied to the circle of philosophers and other scholars who gathered around Marsilio Ficino, under the auspices of the Medici, in Careggi, near...

FICINO, MARSILIO (1433–1499), was the most eminent philosopher of the Renaissance. Ficino employed Neoplatonism, the characteristic form of Renaissance philosophy, as a support for Christianity. Cosimo de' Medici, impressed with...

Ficino, Marsilio(1433–1499) Marsilio Ficino, the founder of the Florentine Academy, was born the eldest son of a physician in Figline, near Florence. He studied the humanities, philosophy, and medicine in Florence but apparently did not obtain...

Marsilio Ficino (Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; Figline Valdarno, October 19 1433 - Careggi, October 1 1499) was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism who was in...

Marsilio Ficino. The Letters of Marsilio Ficino. Volumes 1-7. Trans. Members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London. London: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., 2001. index. append. bibl. [pounds sterling]140. ISBN: 0-85683-010-0. Ficino divided his letters into twelve books....

Masilio Ficino saw Pythagoras and the Pythagorean school of philosophy as prophetic for Renaissance attitudes about psychology, religion, and moral philosophy. Pythagoras as a believer in souls' immortality fit closely with Ficino's need for psychological purging before divine ascent. Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) is...