The Renaissance saw the continuation of interest in magic that had been found in the Mediaeval period, and in this period, there was an increased interest in Hermeticism amongst occultists and ceremonial magicians in Europe, largely fuelled by the 1471 translation of the ancient Corpus hermeticum into Latin by Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ).

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At the academy, both Michelangelo's outlook and his art were subject to the influence of many of the most prominent philosophers and writers of the day including Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Poliziano.

Though there is a Christian occult tradition that goes back at least to Renaissance times, when Marsilio Ficino developed a Christian Hermeticism and Pico della Mirandola developed a Christian form of Kabbalism, mainstream institutional Christianity has always resisted occult influences, which are:

* 1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher ( d. 1499 )

Marsilio Ficino ( Platonic Theology 17. 3-4 ), for one, argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis were intended allegorically.

* Marsilio Ficino, Significant translator of Plato's works ( 1433 – 1481 ).

* Marsilio Ficino writes " Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love ".

Here Pletho met and influenced Cosimo de ' Medici to found a new Platonic Academy, which, under Marsilio Ficino, would proceed to translate into Latin all Plato's works, the Enneads of Plotinus, and various other Neoplatonist works.

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine humanist and the first director of the Accademia Platonica, paid Plethon the ultimate honour, calling him ' the second Plato ', while Cardinal Bessarion speculated as to whether Plato's soul occupied his body.

This spiritual love, which animated Antoine Héroet's Parfaicte Amye ( 1543 ) as well, owed much to Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ), the Florentine translator and commentator of Plato's works.

* Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ) Influential Italian humanist philosopher who revived Neoplatonism and was a leader in the Renaissance ; translated all of Plato's and Plotinus ' works into Latin, as well as many Neoplatonic authors and the Corpus Hermeticum.

Complexion, in its original sense, engaged the attention of philosophers and musical theorists from ancient times right through to the Renaissance and beyond, in relation to the most favourable balancing of the ' qualities ' or elements in order to heal and invigorate the soul: from Pythagoras and the musical theorist Aristoxenus, through Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Aristotle, Saint Augustine in his thesis on music, and Aquinas ; and in the Florentine Renaissance, Marsilio Ficino in his work on the immortality of the soul, the Theologia Platonica.

However, Steuco drew on an already existing philosophical tradition, the most direct predecessors of which were Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ( 1463 – 94 ).

The most important humanists living in Matthias ' court were Antonio Bonfini, Galeotto Marzio, Pietro Ranzano, Marsilio Ficino, Aurelio Lippo Brandolini and the Hungarian poet Janus Pannonius.

Renaissance Neo-Platonists, such as Marsilio Ficino, whose translations of Plato were still used into the nineteenth century, attempted to reconcile Platonism with Christianity, according to the suggestions of the early Church fathers, Lactantius and Saint Augustine.

During the 13th century the hereditary Counts of Korčula were loosely governed in turn by the Hungarian crown and by the Republic of Genoa, and also enjoyed a brief period of independence ; but, in 1255, Marsilio Zorzi conquered the island's city and razed or damaged some of its churches in the process, forcing the Counts to return to Venetian supreme rule.

Sadly, all were lost except that of Marsilio Compagnon.

Material comes from a variety of sources representing both Eastern and Western traditions, including the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Bible, Plato, Marsilio Ficino, Hermes Trismegistus, Shakespeare and Emerson.

15th century writers such as the poet Poliziano and the Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino made extensive translations from both Latin and Greek.

His circle of friends included the architect of the Duomo, Filippo Brunelleschi, and the philosopher Marsilio Ficino ; he knew Leon Battista Alberti, mathematician, writer and architect ; and his closest friend was Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, himself a wide-ranging intellect and early humanist, who dedicated two short mathematical works, both written in 1445, to Toscanelli, and made himself and Toscanelli the interlocutors in a dialogue entitled ‘ On Squaring the Circle ( De quadratura circuli ) written in 1458.