Marsilio Ficino
Italian priest
Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day,... Wikipedia
Born: October 19, 1433, Figline Valdarno, Italy
Died: October 1, 1499 (age 65 years), Villa Medici at Careggi, Florence, Italy
Influenced by: Plato, Plotinus, Gemistos Plethon, and more
Parents: Diotifeci d'Agnolo and Alessandra di Nanoccio
Notable ideas: Platonic love; First in a genus; Prisca theologia
Notable work: 1474 De Christiana Religione; 1482 Theologia Platonica; de immortalitate animae; 1484 De amore; 1489 De vita libri tres
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