Ficino's Platonic Academy
1462 · Event
Cosimo gives the young scholar Marsilio Ficino a villa at Careggi and Greek manuscripts to translate the whole of Plato — the heart of Florentine Neoplatonism.
On these timelines: Renaissance, Arts and Thoughts, Master, Italy (post-476 CE)
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