Ficino Chronology, Renaisance

• 1355-60, George Gemistos born
• 1433, Ficino born in Figline near Florence
• 1438, Council of Union arrives at Ferrara, George Gemistos brings the Chaldean Oracles (CO) and Platonic Corpus (PC)
• 1438, Cosimo inpired by Gemistos' lectures (says Ficino)
• 1439, Council of Union arrives at Florence
• 1440-50?, Cosimo acquires Gemistos' CO, PC, receives the Corpus Hermeticum (CH)
• 1451, Columbus born
• 1452, George Gemistos Pletho (GGP) died, Leonardo da Vinci born
• 1452, Ficino meets Cosimo
• 1453, the Turks overwhelm Constantinople
• 1454, the Peace of Lodi, expansion of humanism, Argyropoulos arrives at Florence (Platonist)
• 1454-62, Ficino's first writings
• 1456, Ficino learns Greek
• 1456, Ficino writes Institutiones ad Platonicam disciplinam
• 1462, Cosimo grants villa at Careggi to Ficino (with the PC)
• 1462, Cosimo asks Ficino to translate CH, PC
• 1462, founding of Ficino's Platonic Academy
• 1462, Ficino translates the Orphic Hymns, derived from GGP, influenced Cosimo,
• 1463, April, Ficino dedicates his translation of the Corpus Hermeticum (CH) to Cosimo
• 1463, Ficino completes the CH, begins Plato
• 1464, Cosimo dies, Ficino finishes 10 Platonic dialogues
• 1468, finishes all Platonic dialogues
• 1469, Lorenzo ascends, Ficino's commentaries on Symposium and Philebus publ'd
• 1469-74, Ficino works on his main project, Theologia Platonica
• 1473, Copernicus born, Ficino becomes a priest
• 1474, Ficino finishes De Christiana religione
• 1482, Ficino's translation of PC publ'd
• 1484-92, Ficino works on his transl. of Plotinus and commentary
• 1487, Ficino becomes a canon of the Cathedral of Florence
• 1488, Ficino works on his transl. of Porphyry, Proclus, and other Neoplatonists
• 1489, Ficino finishes his work on medicine, De vita
• 1492, Lorenzo dies, Ficino finishes his transl. of pseudo-Dionysius
• 1494, Medicis expelled, Ficino retires to the country
• 1495, Ficino's letters published
• 1496, Ficino finishes his commentaries on Plato
• 1499, Ficino dies