This Italian writer's major works were a vain attempt to win back favor of the Medicis
[DOC] [TLE] Marsilio Ficino (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) [PAR] Jun 9, 2011 ... Support SEP ... Ficino's writings, however, are difficult, and there is no single 
work of his that ... served early fifteenth-century Florence's greatest patron, 
Cosimo de' Medici, ... may not have been fully privy, acting as they were as 
vessels of divine truth.