Ad vitam felicitatemque: Marsilio Ficino to his friends in Hungary

Abstract

Between 1477 and 1490 Marsilio Ficino sent an abundant flow of study material to his friends in Hungary. This paper will focus on what we can discover of his aims in this enterprise. How effective he was in achieving his aims can be dealt with only tangentially, for that is a very wide subject and one which I have tried to address in various aspects elsewhere. But concentrating on Ficino's writings to his friends in Hungary during this fourteen year period yields some interesting rewards...