Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer, a reviver of Neo-Platonism who was in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.
His Florentine Academy had enormous influence on the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. For him the issue of immortality was the central. “We need immortality to realize our destinies“.
He was more than a typical product of the Renaissance: he was a major symbol of it.
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)
Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandolawas an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, magic and natural philosophy against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance”, and a key text of Renaissance humanism.
Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, magic and natural philosophy against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance”, and a key text of Renaissance humanism.
He perceived himself as a kind of universal philosopher and religious teacher, drawing on all traditions.
Most important for Pico was his universalism and syncretism.
Pico della Mirandola
(1463-1494)
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was a medical man, being professor of medicine at Pavia. He had an interesting holistic philosophy, seeing the world as an organic system. Empty space comes to be filled with animated beings through the operation of the World Soul. All objects in the world have souls, and so have relationships of sympathy and antipathy.
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was a medical man, being professor of medicine at Pavia. He had an interesting holistic philosophy, seeing the world as an organic system. Empty space comes to be filled with animated beings through the operation of the World Soul. All objects in the world have souls, and so have relationships of sympathy and antipathy.
