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Something wrong?He brought Plato back from the dead - not metaphorically. Ficino translated the complete works into Latin for the first time, cracked open Neoplatonism for a Europe that had forgotten it, and ran the Florentine Academy like a Renaissance think tank that bent the arc of philosophy itself.
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, The intellect is prompted by nature to comprehend the whole breadth of being. ... Under the concept of truth it knows all, and under the concept of the good it desires all.
The inquiry of the intellect never ceases until it finds that cause of which nothing is the cause but which is itself the cause of causes.
The rational soul in a certain manner possesses the excellence of infinity and eternity. If this were not the case, it would never characteristically incline toward the infinite.
About this person
Born in October 1433, Ficino was a Catholic priest with a side interest in astrology and a central obsession with ancient thought. He became the first scholar to translate all of Plato's surviving works into Latin, making the Greek philosopher legible to a continent that had lost him. His Florentine Academy - an attempt to resurrect Plato's original school - became the nerve center of early Renaissance humanism, pulling in the major academics of his era and shaping how European philosophy would unfold for centuries. He died in October 1499, a month shy of sixty-six, having spent his life making the old new again.
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