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Marsilio Ficino
Priest, Philosopher and Platonist
Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.Marsilio Ficino
Scholar, priest, humanist, astrologer, magician, musician, vegetarian Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was the leading light of the Renaissance version of Neo-Platonism. His translations of Plato from Greek to English would change the history of thought in the western World
Born in Figline Valdarno to Diotifeci Ficino, a physician favoured by the elder Cosimo de' Medici. Marsilio studied the humanities and medicine and himself quickly became a favourite of Cosimo, part of the Medici household as the tutor of both Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo the future il Magnifico, and Pico della Mirandola. He studied Greek with John Argyropoulos, who stayed on the city after the Council of Florence (1438–45).
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