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Marsilio Ficino: Lecturer at the Studio fiorentino*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies*
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University of Liverpool
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Following the death of Marsilio Ficino on i October 1499 the Ufficiali dello Studio discussed whether they should attend his funeral in view of Ficino's ties with the Studio fiorentino, the University of Florence. These ties dated back to at least 1451 when Ficino was a student of logic at the Studio. He continued to study philosophy and medicine there throughout the 1450s, acquiring a good knowledge of Aristotle and Averroes. Ficino was still described as a student of philosophy in 1462. In 1466 he was amongst the witnesses to a doctorate granted by the Studio. Even though no more has been known of the ties between the young Ficino and the Studio, there has long been a debate over whether he taught there. This debate can now be settled. New documentary evidence proves that he was hired by the Ufficiali to lecture on philosophy in 1466.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , Winter 1992 , pp. 785 - 790
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1992

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Footnotes

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The research for this article was made possible by grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the Owen Jones Trust, and the British Academy. I am grateful to Dr. Alison Brown and Professor Anthony Molho for encouraging me to study the records of the Monte Comune, and to Dr. Robert Black and Professors M. J. B. Allen and Paul Grendler for providing several references. Dr. C. H. Clough, and Professors Arthur Field, James Hankins, and Paul Oskar Kristeller read a draft of this article, and I wish to thank them for their comments and suggestions. I also wish to thank my friends, Robin Eadie Crum and Roger J. Crum, whose efforts contributed much to the form and content of this article.

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