Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)
Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was a physician, an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics and religious orders of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
