Marsilio Ficino#Marsilio
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#Marsilio
Marsilio Ficino · 1433–1499
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Who this is
“One frail, melancholy scholar, bankrolled by the Medici, translated the entire works of Plato into Latin for the first time in Western history — and invented the idea everyone still uses without knowing his name: Platonic love.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“All the world's ancient wisdom is one golden chain that ends in Plato and points to God — and the human soul, hungry for the infinite, is the knot that ties the whole universe together.”
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