Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino Book

An excellent selection of letters from the philosopher nobody's heard about. A pity really, because when you look at a statue that's come from the hand of Michelangelo or Botticelli's Classical allegories you are looking at something that has sprung from mind and spirit of Ficino. Chosen by Cosimo Medici while still a young man to head the Platonic Academy in Florence, tasked with translating the newly rediscovered works of Plato from Greek into Latin (and let it not be forgotten, Tuscan) this man was and is one of the seminal thinkers of the Renaissance. His works and his direct influence on some of the great movers and shakers of Western Europe cannot be underestimated. In his spare time, he was a physician, priest, and a superb musician - a true polymath.