Marsilio Ficino

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The Reverend Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino from a fresco painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in the Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Born	19 October 1433 Figline Valdarno, Republic of Florence
Died	1 October 1499(1499-10-01) (aged 65) Careggi, Republic of Florence
Notable work	1474  De Christiana Religione 1482  Theologia Platonica de immortalitate animae 1484  De amore 1489  De vita libri tres
Relatives	Diotifeci d'Agnolo Alessandra di Nanoccio (parents)
Era	Renaissance philosophy
School	Christian humanism Neohermeticism Neoplatonism Augustinianism Thomism
Main interests	Theology, astrology, metaphysics
Notable ideas	Platonic love Prisca theologia[1]

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Marsilio Ficino (Italian: [marˈsiːljo fiˈtʃiːno]; Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) 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, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.^[2] His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.