Ficino
Britishnoun
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However, Ficino argued, the human soul existed at the center of the universe, because it combined aspects of both the godly world and the physical world in which humans lived.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
One of the most important of the Italian Neoplatonists was Marsilio Ficino, who translated all of Plato’s works from ancient Greek to Latin and synthesized Platonic thought with the teachings of Christianity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
His education, though it fitted him for Platonic discussions with Ficino and rendered him an amateur of humanistic culture, had failed to make a pedant of him.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Undoubtedly Ficino was the centre of the Accademia and one of the greatest scholarly influences of the time.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
The learned Marsilio Ficino translated Plotinus, that great archimage of platonic mysticism.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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