Cosimo de' Medici orders Ficino to translate Hermes

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• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Routledge pp. 15-16 · open book

  Cosimo, he says, had handed over to him the works of Plato for translation. But in the year 1463 word came to Ficino from Cosimo that he must translate Hermes first, at once, and go on afterwards to Plato; "mihi Mercurium primo Termaximum, mox Platonem mandavit interpretandum".1 Ficino made the translation in a few months, whilst the old Cosimo, who died in 1464, was still alive.

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• Hermes Trismegistus mentioned
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