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Ficino, Marsilio
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MARSILIO FICINO (1433-1499)
Ficino, Marsilo (1433-1499) - one of the most important renaissance scholars (philosopher, theologian, and linguist). He was among the founders of Renaissance Neo-Platonism.
As a son of Cosimo's doctor he studied medicine, classical language and rhetoric and worked some time as a physician in Bologna. From 1462 he was patronized by Cosimo de Medici. Cosimo donated him a house in S. Egidio in Florence, a ‘poderetto’ near Careggio and codices of Plotinus and Plato to translate them into Latin. Ficino named him as his spiritual father. When Cosimo's agent found Corpus Hermeticum or The Book of Hermes in 1463, Ficino was engaged for translation. Before Cosimo's death on 4th of August 1464, Ficino was able to send him translations of the Pimander of Mercurius Trismegistus (the most important part of Corpus Hermeticum) and ten Dialogues of Plato. Corpus Hermeticum became one of the most popular books at the end of 15th century.
In 1462 became a leader of the Medicean circle of Platonic Academy whose members were most probably also Leon Battista Alberti, Angelo Poliziano, Cristoforo Landino, Pico della Mirandola, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer, ...
After Cosimo’s death Ficion continued to work for Medici, first for Cosimo’s son Piero and then for his grandson Lorenzo. He was Lorenzo’s tutor and a friend. Latter when Lorenzo’s interest in Cosimo beginning to wane, Ficino wrote him some letters in which he appealed that he continued the work of his great predecessor Cosimo.
In 1473 he became a priest and by support of Lorenzo de Medici also a canon of Florentine Cathedral. He wrote commentaries of Plato and Plotinus and original
philosophical works Theologia Platonica de immortalitate animae (1469-74), Concerning the Christian religion (1474) and De triplici vita
(1489).
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