Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 November 1466 Florence |
| Died | 10 April 1522 Florence |
| Nationality | Florentine |
| Other names | Francesco di Zanobi Cattani da Diacceto |
| Occupation | philosopher |
Francesco Cattani da Diacceto (16 November 1466 – 10 April 1522) was a Florentine Neoplatonist philosopher of the Italian Renaissance.
Life
Francesco Cattani was born in Florence on 16 November 1466, the son of Zanobi Cattani da Diacceto and Lionarda di Francesco di Iacopo Venturi.[1] In his nineteenth year he married Lucretia di Cappone di Bartolomeo Capponi, with whom he had seven sons and six daughters. From 1491 to 1492 he studied philosophy under Oliviero Arduini at the University of Pisa. When he returned to Florence he became a disciple of Marsilio Ficino and a member of the intellectual group known as the Platonic Academy.[2] He is sometimes considered Ficino's successor.[3] Unlike Ficino, Diacceto tried to reconcile the philosophies of Aristotle and Plato.[4]
Francesco Cattani died in Florence on 10 April 1522.
Works
The works of Diacceto, in the original Latin, are collected in the 1563 edition, Opera Omnia, edited by Theodor Zwinger and published in Basel.
References
- ^ Benedetto Varchi (1561). I tre libri d'Amore di M. Francesco Cattani da Diacceto, filosofo et gentil'hvomo fiorentino, con un Panegerico all'Amore; et con la Vita del detto autore, fatta da M. Benedetto Varchi (in Italian). In Vinegia: appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari.
- ^ Paul Oskar Kristeller, "The Platonic Academy of Florence", Renaissance News, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Autumn, 1961), p. 151.
- ^ Paul Oskar Kristeller (1979). "Cattani da Diacceto, Francesco, detto il Pagonazzo" (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 22 (online version). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed June 2015.
- ^ Luc Deitz, "Francesco Cattani da Diacceto" in Jill Kraye (ed.), Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts, Volume One: Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Further reading
- Armand L. De Gaetano, "The Florentine Academy and the Advancement of Learning Through the Vernacular: The Orti Oricellari and the Sacra Accademia", Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, T. 30, No. 1 (1968), pp. 19–52 (JSTOR, subscription required)
