Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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