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Ficino (Italian) [fiˈtʃiːno] n (Biographies / Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499) M, Italian, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Marsilio (marˈsiːlio). 1433-99, Italian Neoplatonist philosopher: attempted to integrate Platonism with Christianity How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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between the two approaches is mainly due to the deeply committed scholarship of Carlos Gilly, already witnessed by the 1999 volume Marsilio Ficino e il ritorno di Ermete Trismegisto / Marsilio Ficino and the Return of Hermes Trismegistos, the catalogue of the exhibition promoted in Florence by the same Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica and the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. At various points he calls upon, to select only a few of almost countless examples, the twelfth-century moralist Peter the Chanter, Dante's thirteenth-century friend Brunetto Latini, the fourteenth-century poets William Langland and Geoffrey Chaucer, the fifteenth-century essayists Leon Battista Alberti and Christine de Pizan and the philosopher Marsilio Ficino, and the sixteenth-century satirists Francois Rabelais and Pietro Aretino. The theories of philosophy, astrology, and magic proposed by Renaissance thinkers such as Ficino can be seen as steps on the path to science, from its origins in myth to the full maturity of contemporary discoveries. |
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