Medieval · 1433–1499
Who influenced Marsilio Ficino?
Influences and legacy
Translated Plato for the Renaissance and ran the Florentine Academy as a revival of the soul.
Marsilio Ficino was influenced by Plato, and went on to influence Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Marsilio Ficino?
Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest and one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Renaissance. He was the first to translate all of Plato's surviving works into Latin.
He revived Neoplatonism and founded the Florentine Academy as a new Platonic Academy, and it shaped the direction of the Italian Renaissance and of European philosophy.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Marsilio Ficino?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
Who did Marsilio Ficino influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Marsilio Ficino.
- Pico della Mirandola 1463–1494
- Giordano Bruno 1548–1600
The line of teachers behind Marsilio Ficino
The longest documented line of influence ending at Marsilio Ficino runs 5 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximander
- Pythagoras
- Empedocles
- Plato
- Marsilio Ficino
Two steps away from Marsilio Ficino
Indirect influences
- Through Plato: Pythagoras, Parmenides, Empedocles, Protagoras, Socrates, Philolaus
The second generation
- Through Giordano Bruno: Baruch Spinoza
Marsilio Ficino by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 14
- Thinkers downstream
- 112
- Wikipedia languages
- 58 — #33 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Marsilio Ficino
- Who influenced Marsilio Ficino?
- Plato.
- Who did Marsilio Ficino influence?
- Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno.
- When did Marsilio Ficino live?
- 1433–1499. The map files Marsilio Ficino under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Marsilio Ficino card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Marsilio Ficino in 58 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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