Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. October 28, 1433 – October 10, 1499; died at 65. Alive at the same time as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, and Niccolò Machiavelli. Wiki link