Marsilio Ficino
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Marsilio Ficino , 1433-99, Italian philosopher. Under the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, Ficino became the most influential exponent of Platonism in Italy in the 15th cent. He translated many of the Greek classics into Latin, among them Plato's dialogues and the writings of Plotinus. Chosen by Cosimo to head a new Platonic academy at Florence, he was important in the development of Renaissance humanism. His chief original work was Theologica Platonica (1482), in which he combined Christian theology and Neoplatonic elements.
Bibliography: See studies by M. J. Allen (1989) and K. Eisenbichler and O. Pugliese, ed. (1989).
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