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The Platonic Academy of Florence (Italian: Accademia Platonica di Firenze) was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the Florentine Renaissance of the fifteenth century. [ 1 ] : 57 [ 2 ] : 132 [ 3 ] : 458 [ 4 ] [ 5 ] : 150
The villa was among the first [1] of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic Academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at the villa in 1464.Like most villas of Florentine families, the villa remained a working farm that helped render the family self-sufficient.
When Cosimo decided to refound Plato's Academy at Florence, he chose Ficino as its head. In 1462, Cosimo supplied Ficino with Greek manuscripts of Plato's work, whereupon Ficino started translating the entire corpus into Latin [5] (draft translation of the dialogues finished 1468–69; [6] published 1484).
The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία, romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, or the Platonic Academy, was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. The academy is regarded as the first institution of higher learning in the west, where subjects as diverse as biology , geography , astronomy , mathematics , history ...
The Platonic Academy was destroyed in 86 B.C. by Roman general Sulla. A statue of ancient Greek philosopher Plato in Athens, Greece. - Brigida Soriano/Alamy.
Giovanni Cavalcanti (1444–1509) was an Italian poet from Florence, a member of the Platonic Academy of Florence that met in the Villa Medici at Careggi under the guidance of Marsilio Ficino. Ficino and Cavalcanti were particular friends: [ 1 ] Giovanni Cavalcanti lived for many years with Ficino at his villa, and Marsilio dedicated his essay ...
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