PHILOSOPHER

Marsilio Ficino

1433 - 1499

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Marsilio T. Ficino (Italian: [marˈsiːljo fiˈtʃiːno]; Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marsilio Ficino has received more than 681,021 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Marsilio Ficino is the 130th most popular philosopher (down from 125th in 2019), the 311th most popular biography from Italy (down from 277th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Marsilio Ficino was a philosopher and physician from Florence, Italy. He is most famous for his translation of Plato's works into Latin and for his commentary on the Hermetic Corpus, which he believed to be a divine revelation.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Marsilio Ficino ranks 130 out of 1,267. Before him are Ramon Llull, Bonaventure, Philo, Joseph Priestley, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Ernst Cassirer. After him are Friedrich Fröbel, Swami Vivekananda, Isocrates, Zygmunt Bauman, Baron d'Holbach, and Oswald Spengler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1433, Marsilio Ficino ranks 2. Before him is Charles the Bold. After him are Stephen III of Moldavia, Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, Mirkhvand, Giovanni Giocondo, Abdullah Mirza, Nilus of Sora, Eleanor of Scotland, and James of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1499, Marsilio Ficino ranks 1. After him are Alesso Baldovinetti, John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Stephen Zápolya, Paulo da Gama, Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, Perkin Warbeck, Ambrogio Contarini, Leonardo III Tocco, and Laura Cereta.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Marsilio Ficino ranks 311 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Gelasius I (410), Pope Adrian III (800), Pope Benedict I (525), Torquato Tasso (1544), Charles IV of Spain (1748), and Maxentius (278). After him are Catiline (-109), Dario Fo (1926), Pierre Cardin (1922), Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892), Pope Cornelius (200), and Alessandro Scarlatti (1660).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Marsilio Ficino ranks 14. Before him are Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Tommaso Campanella (1568), and Bonaventure (1221). After him are Giambattista Vico (1668), Hippasus (-600), Cesare Beccaria (1738), Benedetto Croce (1866), Julius Evola (1898), and Marsilius of Padua (1275).

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