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Marsilio Ficino
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Marsilio Ficino

Italian philosopher and Catholic priest

Born 19 October 1433 · died 1 October 1499, aged 65
Also known as Marsille Ficin, Marsiglio Ficino, Marsillio Ficino

Who was alive at the same time as Marsilio Ficino?

  1. Johannes Gutenberg, c. 1400 – 1468
  2. Mehmed II, 1432 – 1481
  3. Marsilio Ficino, 1433 – 1499
  4. Sandro Botticelli, c. 1445 – 1510
  5. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  6. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  7. Amerigo Vespucci, 1454 – 1512
  8. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  9. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  10. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  11. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  12. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  13. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  14. Thomas More, c. 1478 – 1535
  15. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  16. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  17. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  18. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  19. Mimar Sinan, c. 1490 – 1588
  20. Titian, c. 1490 – 1576
  21. Henry VIII, 1491 – 1547
  22. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  23. François Rabelais, 1494 – 1553
  24. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566

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When Marsilio Ficino was born, Mehmed II was 1, François Villon was 1 or 2, Pope Pius II was 28, Leon Battista Alberti was 29 and Pope Callixtus III was 54.

When Marsilio Ficino died, Leonardo da Vinci was 47, Michelangelo was 24, Martin Luther was 15, Christopher Columbus was 47 or 48 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 30.

Born during Marsilio Ficino’s lifetime: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ferdinand Magellan and Raphael.

Not quite contemporaries: Joan of Arc died about 2 years before Marsilio Ficino was born, John Calvin was born about 10 years after Marsilio Ficino died, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was born about a year after Marsilio Ficino died and Nostradamus was born about 4 years after Marsilio Ficino died.

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The 132 best-known contemporaries

132 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marsilio Ficino. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1466.

  1. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  2. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  3. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  4. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  6. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  7. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  8. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  9. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  10. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  11. Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400 – 1468
  12. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  14. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  15. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  16. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  17. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  18. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  19. Mehmed II 1432 – 1481
  20. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  21. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  22. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  23. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  24. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  25. Babur 1483 – 1530
  26. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  27. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  28. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  29. Pope Alexander VI c. 1431 – 1503
  30. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  31. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  32. François Villon 1431 – 1463
  33. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  34. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  35. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  36. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  37. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  38. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  39. Vlad the Impaler c. 1430 – c. 1477
  40. Pope Pius II 1405 – 1464
  41. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  42. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  43. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  44. Leon Battista Alberti 1404 – 1472
  45. Richard III of England 1452 – 1485
  46. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  47. Pope Callixtus III 1379 – 1458
  48. Jan van Eyck c. 1390 – 1441
  49. Jami 1414 – 1492
  50. Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 – 1492
  51. Girolamo Savonarola 1452 – 1498
  52. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  53. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  54. Pope Eugene IV 1383 – 1447
  55. Pope Nicholas V c. 1397 – 1455
  56. Louis XI 1423 – 1483
  57. Skanderbeg 1405 – 1468
  58. Pope Sixtus IV 1414 – 1484
  59. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  60. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  61. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  62. Nicholas of Cusa 1401 – 1464
  63. Pope Innocent VIII 1432 – 1492
  64. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  65. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  66. Pope Paul II 1417 – 1471
  67. Bartolomeu Dias c. 1467 – 1500
  68. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  69. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  70. Murad II 1404 – 1451
  71. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  72. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  73. Pope Pius III 1439 – 1503
  74. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  75. Ulugh Beg 1394 – 1449
  76. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  77. Thomas à Kempis c. 1381 – 1471
  78. Charles VII of France 1403 – 1461
  79. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  80. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  81. Fra Angelico c. 1396 – 1455
  82. Sejong the Great 1397 – 1450
  83. Edward IV 1442 – 1483
  84. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 1463 – 1494
  85. Charles VIII of France 1470 – 1498
  86. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 – 1434
  87. Constantine XI Palaiologos 1404 – 1453
  88. Henry VI of England 1421 – 1471
  89. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  90. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368 – 1437
  91. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  92. Matthias Corvinus 1443 – 1490
  93. Domenico Ghirlandaio 1448 – 1494
  94. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  95. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  96. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  97. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  98. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  99. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  100. Ali-Shir Nava'i 1441 – 1501
  101. John Cabot c. 1450 – c. 1498
  102. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  103. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1446
  104. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  105. Piero della Francesca 1415 – 1492
  106. Moctezuma II 1466 – 1520
  107. Marguerite de Navarre 1492 – 1549
  108. Prince Henry the Navigator 1394 – 1460
  109. Giorgione 1478 – 1510
  110. Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1415 – 1493
  111. Andrea del Verrocchio c. 1435 – 1488
  112. Charles the Bold 1433 – 1477
  113. Pietro Perugino 1448 – 1523
  114. Cesare Borgia 1475 – 1507
  115. Zeami Motokiyo c. 1363 – 1443
  116. Juan Sebastián Elcano c. 1486 – 1526
  117. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486 – 1534
  118. Thomas Cranmer 1489 – 1556
  119. Juan Ponce de León 1460 – 1521
  120. Manuel I of Portugal 1469 – 1521
  121. Georgius Agricola 1494 – 1555
  122. James I of Scotland 1394 – 1437
  123. Piri Reis c. 1470 – c. 1554
  124. Cosimo de' Medici 1389 – 1464
  125. Rogier van der Weyden c. 1396 – 1464
  126. Christian I of Denmark 1426 – 1481
  127. Vasco Núñez de Balboa c. 1475 – 1519
  128. James IV 1473 – 1513
  129. Baldassare Castiglione 1478 – 1529
  130. Vasili III of Russia 1479 – 1533
  131. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 1486 – 1535
  132. Lorenzo Valla 1407 – 1457