Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

His Florentine Academy an attempt to revive Plato's school had enormous influence on the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. Marsilio Ficino (Italian: [marˈsiljo fiˈtʃino]; Latin name: Marsilius Ficinus; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance an astrologer a reviver of Neoplatonism who was in touch with every major academic thinker and writer of his day and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.