MARSILIO FICINO Beauty is the harmony which love desires Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was a major Italian Neo-Platonist philosopher of the Renaissance. He was born near Florence, spent most of his career under the patronage of the Medici family, and was also the tutor of Lorenzo the Magnificent. For Ficino, the task of the philosopher is to interpre...

THEMES ON THIS PAGE:  1. THE FALL OF THE SOUL 2. PEAK EXPERIENCE 3. CONTEMPLATION 4. BEAUTY Plotinus (204-270 AD) was a major Neo-Platonist philosopher who lived in late antiquity, mostly in Rome. He was a central figure of Neoplatonism – a school of philosophy based on the thoughts of the philosopher Plato, who had lived centur...