Marsilio Ficino

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Catholic priest Neoplatonist philosopher Renaissance humanist human philosopher translator

Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.

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Label	Occurrences
Marsilio Ficino canonical	23
Ficino, Marsilio	1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic priest ⓘ Neoplatonist philosopher ⓘ Renaissance humanist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ translator ⓘ
associatedWith	Medici court in Florence ⓘ Platonic Academy of Florence ⓘ
birthDate	1433-10-19 ⓘ
birthPlace	Figline Valdarno ⓘ Republic of Florence ⓘ
citizenship	Republic of Florence ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Italy ⓘ
deathDate	1499-10-01 ⓘ
deathPlace	Careggi ⓘ Republic of Florence ⓘ
educatedAt	Florence ⓘ
employer	House of Medici ⓘ surface form: Medici family
era	Renaissance ⓘ surface form: Italian Renaissance
fieldOfWork	astrology ⓘ classical philology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ
genre	commentary ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ theological treatise ⓘ
influenced	European humanist philosophers ⓘ Pico della Mirandola ⓘ surface form: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Lorenzo de' Medici ⓘ Renaissance Platonism ⓘ surface form: Renaissance Platonists
influencedBy	Augustine of Hippo ⓘ Plato ⓘ Plotinus ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ surface form: Thomas Aquinas
knownFor	development of Renaissance Neoplatonism ⓘ influence on Renaissance humanism ⓘ revival of Plato in the Renaissance ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian ⓘ Latin ⓘ
movement	Neoplatonism ⓘ Renaissance humanism ⓘ
name	Marsilio Ficino self-link ⓘ
notableWork	Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love ⓘ De vita libri tres ⓘ Latin translation of Plato's complete works ⓘ Latin translation of Plotinus' Enneads ⓘ Theologia Platonica ⓘ
occupation	Catholic priest ⓘ astrologer ⓘ philosopher ⓘ translator ⓘ
patron	Cosimo de' Medici ⓘ Lorenzo de' Medici ⓘ
placeOfBurial	Florence ⓘ
positionHeld	head of the Platonic Academy of Florence ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Roman Catholic Church

Referenced by (24)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Renaissance humanism → associatedWithFigure → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Pico della Mirandola → influencedBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Marsilio Ficino → name → Marsilio Ficino self-link ⓘ

Medici court in Florence → employed → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Hermeticism → revivedBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Renaissance Platonism → promotedBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Lorenzo de' Medici → patronOf → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Theologia Platonica → author → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

De vita libri tres → author → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ficino, Marsilio

Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love → author → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Platonic Academy of Florence → mainTheorist → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Platonic Academy of Florence → ledBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Platonic Academy of Florence → associatedWith → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

De occulta philosophia libri tres → influencedBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Careggi → associatedWith → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

subject surface form: Villa Medici at Careggi

Careggi → associatedWith → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Giovanni → influencedBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

subject surface form: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Angelo Poliziano → studentOf → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Figline Valdarno → birthplaceOf → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Corpus Hermeticum → wasFirstLatinTranslationBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Ficino's Latin translation of Plato → translator → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

Nicholas of Cusa's De docta ignorantia → influenced → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ

subject surface form: De docta ignorantia

Francesco Patrizi → influencedBy → Marsilio Ficino ⓘ