The Philosopher
Marsilio Ficino
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- Italian
- Schools:
- Christian humanism, Neoplatonism, Augustinianism, Thomism
- Branchs:
- Neoplatonism, Christian Humanism, Hermeticism, Theology, Astrology, Metaphysics
- Period:
- Renaissance philosophy
The synopsis
The works
De Christiana religione
Theologia Platonica de immortalitate animae
De amore
De vita libri tres
The quotes
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?