Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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