Platonic Academy (Florence)

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 

History

Villa di Careggi, where the group may have met

In about 1462 Cosimo de' Medici established the young Marsilio Ficino at Montevecchio, a villa close to his own Villa di Careggi in the Florentine countryside.[6]: 69 [5] There Ficino, who was an ardent Neo-Platonist, was to study ancient Greek and work on translating the works of Plato into Latin.[6]: 69 [5]

Cosimo de' Medici attended Gemistos Plethon's lectures and was motivated to establish the Accademia Platonica in Florence, where Italian students of Plethon continued their teachings following the conclusion of the council.[7][8]

Ficino became the central figure of an informal group of people interested in his work, who both corresponded and met for intellectual discussions at Montevecchio, at Careggi,[3]: 431  or perhaps in Florence itself.[3]: 458  It was never a formal body – it had no statutes and kept no records of membership[5][3]: 431  – and there is no contemporary evidence that it was ever known as a "Platonic Academy".[3]: 430  Arnaldo della Torre identified about a hundred people as participants in the group, among them Alessandro Braccesi, Demetrius Chalcondylas, Cristoforo Landino, Angelo Poliziano, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Lorenzo de' Medici.[3]: 431  Among those who Ficino specifically stated had never been among his auditores ('listeners') are Benedetto Accolti, Leon Battista Alberti, Demetrius Chalcondylas, Cristoforo Landino, Poliziano, Pierleone da Spoleto [it] and Pico della Mirandola.[3]: 458 

According to some accounts, the group continued to meet after the death of Ficino in 1499, centred round Francesco Cattani da Diacceto. Meetings were no longer at Careggi but in the Orti Oricellari, the gardens of the Palazzo Rucellai, made available by Bernardo Rucellai.[5] The group was dissolved in 1522 in the aftermath of the plot to assassinate Giulio de' Medici.[5] Other accounts give an earlier date of 1492–1494 for the dissolution of the group, suggesting that the meetings in the Orti Oricellari were not directly connected, although many of the same people participated in them.[9]: 20 

References

  1. ^ Peter Burke (1987). The Renaissance. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International. ISBN 0391034847.
  2. ^ Vincent Cronin (1992 [1967]). The Florentine Renaissance. London: Pimlico. ISBN 0712698744.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g James Hankins (1991). The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence. Renaissance Quarterly. 44 (3): 429–475. doi:10.2307/2862593. (subscription required).
  4. ^ Paul Oskar Kristeller (1961). The Platonic Academy of Florence. Renaissance News. 14 (3): 147–159. doi:10.2307/2858191. (subscription required).
  5. ^ a b c d e f [s.n.] (2009). Accademia platonica fiorentina (in Italian). Dizionario di filosofia. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed March 2022.
  6. ^ a b Christopher Hibbert (1979 [1974]). The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin. ISBN 0140050906.
  7. ^ DeBolt, Darien C. (1998) George Gemistos Plethon on God: Heterodoxy in Defence of Orthodoxy. A paper delivered at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Mass. Retrieved 2008-11-20
  8. ^ https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/accademia-platonica-fiorentina_(Dizionario-di-filosofia)/
  9. ^ Felix Gilbert (1949). Bernardo Rucellai and the Orti Oricellari: A Study on the Origin of Modern Political Thought. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 12: 101–131. doi:10.2307/750259 (subscription required)

Further reading

Read other articles:

The Cube (restaurant)

Restaurant in Milan and Brussels , London and StockholmThe CubeThe Cube, located in Milan, ItalyRestaurant informationEstablished2011Owner(s)ElectroluxChefVariesFood typeVariesCityMilan and Brussels (2011)London and Stockholm (2012)Seating capacity18ReservationsReservations onlyWebsitewww.electrolux.co.uk/Cube/ The Cube is a pop-up restaurant created by Electrolux. Since 2011, two versions of the restaurant have been located in different cities in Europe, where a number of guest celebrity ch...

 

دوري جنوب إفريقيا لكرة القدم 2009–10

دوري جنوب إفريقيا لكرة القدم 2009–10 تفاصيل الموسم دوري جنوب أفريقيا لكرة القدم  [لغات أخرى]‏  النسخة 14  البلد جنوب إفريقيا  البطل سوبر سبورت يونايتد  عدد المشاركين 16   دوري جنوب إفريقيا لكرة القدم 2008–09  دوري جنوب إفريقيا لكرة القدم 2010–11  تعديل مصدري...

 

Tethytheria

TethytheriaRentang fosil: Paleosen-Holosen Atas: gajah afrika, lembu laut karibia; tengah: Moeritherium, mamut berbulu; bawah: Paleoparadoxia, Arsinoitherium Klasifikasi ilmiah Kerajaan: Animalia Filum: Chordata Kelas: Mammalia (tanpa takson): Afrotheria (tanpa takson): Paenungulata (tanpa takson): TethytheriaMcKenna 1975 Ordo †Embrithopoda †Desmostylia (?) Proboscidea Sirenia Tethytheria adalah klad mamalia yang meliputi ordo Sirenia, Proboscidea dan ordo Desmostylia dan Embrithopoda ya...

Amma Rajyam Lo Kadapa Biddalu

Indian film directed by Ram Gopal Varma Amma Rajyam Lo Kadapa BiddaluTheatrical release posterDirected bySiddartha ThatoluRam Gopal VarmaWritten byRam Gopal VarmaKarun VenkatProduced byAjay MysoreStarringAjmal AmeerDhananjay PrabhuneBrahmanandamAliCinematographyJagadeesh CheekatiEdited byAnwar AliMusic byRavi ShankarProductioncompaniesTigerProductionAjay Mysore ProductionsRelease date 12 December 2019 (2019-12-12) Running time133 minutes[1]CountryIndiaLanguageTelugu Amm...

 

The Cat Funeral

The Cat FuneralPosterSutradaraLee Jong-hoonProduserLee Jong-hoonDitulis olehLee Jong-hoonBerdasarkanThe Cat Funeraloleh HongPemeranKangin Park Se-youngPenata musikYirumaSinematograferKim Mu-yuPenyuntingSon Yeon-jiPerusahaanproduksiYiruma Kim Young-minDistributorIndieplugTanggal rilis 15 Januari 2015 (2015-01-15) Durasi107 minutesNegaraSouth KoreaBahasaKoreanPendapatankotor₩23,200,900 The Cat Funeral (Hangul: 고양이 장례식; RR: Goyangi jangryesik) adala...

 

Woman Like Me

Not to be confused with A Woman Like Me (song). For the Adele song, see 30 (album). For the book by Curzio Malaparte, see Woman Like Me (short story collection). 2018 single by Little Mix featuring Nicki MinajWoman Like MeSingle by Little Mix featuring Nicki Minajfrom the album LM5 Released12 October 2018 (2018-10-12)GenrePopreggaetonreggae fusionLength3:48LabelSycoSongwriter(s)Jess GlynneSteve McCutcheonEdward SheeranNicki MinajProducer(s)Steve MacLittle Mix singles chrono...

Pembicaraan Pengguna:Tegarrifqi

Halo, Tegarrifqi. Selamat datang di Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia! Memulai Memulai Para pengguna baru dapat melihat halaman Pengantar Wikipedia terlebih dahulu. Anda bisa mengucapkan selamat datang kepada Wikipediawan lainnya di Halaman perkenalan. Bingung mulai menjelajah dari mana? Kunjungi Halaman sembarang. Untuk mencoba-coba menyunting, silakan gunakan bak pasir. Baca juga aturan yang disederhanakan sebelum melanjutkan. Ini adalah hal-hal mendasar yang perlu diketahui oleh semua penyunting...

 

1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster

Fatal skydiving accident near Huron, Ohio, United States 1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster Lake ErieOhioOrtner AirportHuronVermilionDrop site (approximate)1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster (Ohio) The actual and intended drop sitesDateAugust 27, 1967; 56 years ago (1967-08-27)LocationLake Erie near Huron, Ohio, United StatesTypeAviation accident, skydiving accidentCauseAir traffic control error and decision by pilot and divers[i] to jump through cloud cover in violati...

 

Buginese language

Language spoken in Indonesia BugineseBasa Ugiᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗNative toIndonesiaRegionSouth Sulawesi; enclaves elsewhere in Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra, Maluku, PapuaEthnicityBugineseNative speakersL1: 3.5 million L2: 500,000 Total speakers: 4 million (2015 UNSD)[1]Language familyAustronesian Malayo-PolynesianSouth SulawesiBugis–TamanicBugisBugineseWriting systemLatin scriptLontara scriptLanguage codesISO 639-2bugISO 639-3bugGlottologbugi1244The distribution of Buginese an...

Irreligion in Russia

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (August 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Russian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikip...

 

Football Club Vestsjælland

Questa voce sull'argomento società calcistiche danesi è solo un abbozzo. Contribuisci a migliorarla secondo le convenzioni di Wikipedia. Football Club VestsjællandCalcio Segni distintiviUniformi di gara Casa Trasferta Colori sociali Rosso, blu Dati societariCittà Slagelse Nazione Danimarca ConfederazioneUEFA Federazione DBU CampionatoSuperligaen Fondazione2008 Scioglimento2015StadioSlagelse Stadion(10.000 posti) Sito webfcvvikings.dk/ PalmarèsSi invita a seguire il modello di ...

 

Japan–Maldives relations

Bilateral relationsJapan-Maldives relations Japan Maldives Japan–Maldives relations are foreign relations between Japan and Maldives. Diplomatic relations were established in 1967.[1] History Japanese PM Shinzo Abe (left) and Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on October 21, 2019. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the former President of Maldives, had visited Japan four times between 1984 and 2001. In 2014 Abdulla Yameen, the former President of Maldives, m...

Perbatasan Indonesia–Malaysia

Peta perbatasan Indonesia–Malaysia di Pulau Kalimantan Perbatasan Indonesia–Malaysia mencakup perbatasan daratan di Pulau Kalimantan yang membatasi kedua negara tersebut. Di laut, mereka berbatasan di sepanjang Selat Malaka, Laut Tiongkok Selatan, dan Laut Sulawesi. Perbatasan darat antara Indonesia–Malaysia membentang sepanjang 2.019 km² dari Tanjung Batu di barat laut Kalimantan, melewati dataran tinggi pedalaman Kalimantan, hingga ke Teluk Sebatik dan Laut Sulawesi di sebelah t...

 

Бисексуальность

Флаг гордости бисексуалов Бисексуальность      Сексуальные ориентации Бисексуальность Пансексуальность Полисексуальность Моносексуальность Сексуальные идентичности Би-любопытство Гетерогибкость и гомогибкость Сексуальная текучесть Исследования Шк...

 

Queens Community Board 2

Community District in New York, United StatesQueens Community District 2 Queens Community Board 2Community DistrictCountry United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityBoroughQueensNeighborhoods list Hunters PointLong Island CitySunnysideWoodside Government • TypeCommunity board • BodyQueens Community Board 2 • ChairpersonLisa Deller • District ManagerDebra Markell KleinertArea • Total5.0 sq mi (13 km2)Populat...

WITK

Radio station in Pittston, PennsylvaniaWITKPittston, PennsylvaniaBroadcast areaScranton/Wilkes-BarreFrequency1550 kHzBrandingLife Talk 1550Life Talk 94.7ProgrammingFormatChristianOwnershipOwnerWilkins Communications Network(Steel City Radio, Inc.)Sister stationsKLNG, WLMR, WSKY (AM), WFAM, WBXR, WELP, KCNW, WWNL, WBRI, KXKS, WYYC, WIJD, WNVY, WVTJ, WCPCHistoryFormer call signsWKQV, WARD, WPTSTechnical informationFacility ID70868ClassBPower10,000 watts day500 watts nightTransmitter coordinates...

 

Treaty Four Reserve Grounds 77

Indian reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada Indian reserve in Canada, Held collectivelyTreaty Four Reserve Grounds 77Indian reserveTreaty Four Reserve Grounds Indian Reserve No. 77 FlagLocation in SaskatchewanFirst NationHeld collectivelyCountryCanadaProvinceSaskatchewanArea[1] • Total99.2 ha (245.1 acres)Population (2016)[2] • Total15 • Density15/km2 (39/sq mi) The Treaty Four Reserve Grounds 77 are an Indian reserve in Saska...

 

The Skinners' School

Grammar school in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, EnglandThe Skinners' SchoolAddressSt John's RoadRoyal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9PGEnglandCoordinates51°08′33″N 0°15′40″E / 51.1425°N 0.261°E / 51.1425; 0.261InformationTypeGrammar SchoolMottoTo God Only Be All Glory and In Christo FratresEstablished1887FounderWorshipful Company of SkinnersDepartment for Education URN140595 TablesOfstedReportsChairmanMajor General John Moore-Bick CBE DLHeadmasterEdward Wesson...

List of MPs elected in the 2015 United Kingdom general election

2015–2017 Parliament of the United Kingdom ←2010–2015 Parliament 2017–2019 Parliament→Palace of Westminster in 2016OverviewLegislative bodyParliament of the United KingdomTerm27 May 2015 – 3 May 2017Election2015 United Kingdom general electionGovernmentSecond Cameron ministry (until 13 July 2016)First May ministry (from 13 July 2016)House of CommonsMembers650SpeakerJohn BercowLeaderDavid Lidington— Chris Grayling – until 14 July 2016Prime MinisterTheresa May...

 

Indische Sociaal Democratische Vereeniging

Indische Sociaal-Democratische Vereeniging Perhimpunan Demokrat Sosial HindiaKetua umumHenk SneevlietPendiriHenk Sneevliet (Ketua)Adolf BaarsC. HartoghH.W. DekkerBernard CoosterDibentuk09 Mei 1914 (1914-05-09)Dibubarkan23 Mei 1920Diteruskan olehPKIKantor pusatSurabayaSemarangSurat kabarHet Vrije WoordSayap BuruhPorojitnoPKBTSayap PribumiSama Rata Hindia BergerakIdeologiSosialismeMarxisme-LeninismeKomunismeAntikapitalismeAfiliasi internasionalSDAPWarnaMerah Indische Sociaal Democrati...