Renaissance Hermeticism: Ficino, Bruno & the Modern Mind
In 1462, Marsilio Ficino put aside Plato to translate the newly arrived Corpus Hermeticum for Cosimo de’ Medici, sparking a Hermetic revival that helped reshape Renaissance thought and the modern imagination. From Ficino’s prisca theologia to Giordano Bruno’s infinite cosmos and the Yates debate, Hermeticism emerges as a creative misreading that still invites us to seek a primordial, wholistic wisdom beneath all traditions.