Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
Marsilio Ficino
Born: October 19, 1433
Died: October 1, 1499 (aged 65)
Bio: Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance.
Known for:
- Three books on life
- Platonic Theology (1482)
- De vita libri tres
- Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love
- Letters of Marsilio Ficino