Platonic Academy ( Florence ) - wikipedia Platonic Academy ( Florence ) The Platonic Academy ( also known as the Neoplatonic Florentine Academy ) was a 15th - century discussion group in Florence, Italy. History The Neoplatonic Florentine Academy was founded after Gemistus Pletho reintroduced Plato 's thoughts to Western Europe during the 1438 -- 39 Council of Florence. It was sponsored by Cosimo de ' Medici, led by Marsilio Ficino and supported by Medici until death of Lorenzo Medici. It was never a formal group but the members considered themselves a modern form of Plato 's Academy. Important members were Poliziano, Cristoforo Landino, Pico della Mirandola, and Gentile de ' Becchi. The academy would proceed to translate into Latin all of Plato 's works, the Enneads of Plotinus, and various other Neoplatonic works. Headquarters of the group, Villa di Careggi Lorenzo de ' Medici, named `` il Magnifico '' ( piazzale degli Uffizi ) Pico della Mirandola became the first Christian scholar to master the Jewish mystical theology of Kabbalah. He attempted to develop a form of syncretism whereby different systems of thought could be harmonized based on shared elements of truth. Pico asserted that even though Platonism and Christianity had different views, they held some truths in common. An important aspect of Pico 's philosophical thought was his defense of the dignity and liberty of the human being, set forth in On the Dignity of Man ( 1486 ). Both Ficino and Pico resurrected the humanistic views of ancient Greece. However, the humanism of the Renaissance was more individualistic than the humanism of ancient times. The biographer John Addington Symonds speculates that Michelangelo Buonarroti spent time among the members of the Platonic Academy during Buonarroti 's early years in Florence, fully absorbing its doctrines and later authoring poems and other works demonstrating agreement with their doctrines. Platonic Academy was in fact dissolved soon after death of Lorenzo Medici in 1492. Poliziano and Mirandola died under very mysterious circumstances in 1494. In 2007, the bodies of Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola were exhumed from St. Mark 's Basilica in Florence. Scientists under the supervision of Giorgio Gruppioni, a professor of anthropology from Bologna, will use current testing techniques to study the men 's lives and establish the causes of their deaths. A TV documentary is being made of this research, and it was recently announced that these forensic tests showed that both Poliziano and Pico likely died of arsenic poisoning, probably at the order of Lorenzo 's successor, Piero de ' Medici. See also John Argyropoulos Platonism in the Renaissance Platonic Academy References Jump up ^ Peter Burke, The Renaissance, Longmans, 1964, p. 152. Jump up ^ Hunt, Lynn ; Martin, Thomas R. ; Rosenwein, Barbara H. ; Hsia, R. Po - chia ; Smith, Bonnie G. ( 2007 ), The Making of the West, II ( Second ed. ), Boston : Bedford / St. Martin 's, ISBN 978 - 0 - 312 - 43946 - 0 Jump up ^ The Life of Michelangelo, Symonds, J.A., Capricorn Books, 1962, pp. 405 - 408. Jump up ^ Medici writers exhumed in Italy. BBC News, 28 February 2007. Accessed June 2013. Jump up ^ Malcolm Moore ( 7 February 2008 ). `` Medici philosopher 's mysterious death is solved '' The Daily Telegraph. London. Accessed June 2013. Accademie and learned societies in Italy Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna Accademia Angelica Costantiniana Accademia Cosentina Accademia degli Arcadi Accademia degli Incamminati Accademia degli Incogniti Accademia degli Infiammati Accademia degli Inquieti Accademia degli Intronati Accademia degli Svogliati Accademia degli Umidi Accademia degli Umoristi Accademia dei Georgofili Accademia dei Lincei Accademia dei Ricovrati Accademia dei Risvegliati Accademia del Cimento Accademia del Disegno Accademia della Crusca Accademia delle Arti del Disegno Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino Accademia di San Luca Accademia di Santa Cecilia Accademia Fiorentina Accademia Galileiana Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL Accademia Neoplatonica Accademia Pontaniana Academia Secretorum Naturae Accademia Veneziana Associazione Agraria Subalpina Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Dante Alighieri Society Italian Mathematical Union Italian Physical Society Royal Academy of Italy Società Entomologica Italiana Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Platonic_Academy_(Florence)&oldid=834008221 '' Categories : Neoplatonism Christian philosophy Renaissance humanism Learned societies of Italy Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from June 2013 All articles with vague or ambiguous time Vague or ambiguous time from October 2017 Talk About Wikipedia Български Español Euskara Français Italiano 日本 語 Polski Português Română Русский Slovenčina Suomi 5 more Edit links This page was last edited on 3 April 2018, at 13 : 11. About Wikipedia

Question: who founded the platonic academy of philosophy in florence
Answer: Cosimo de' Medici