Abstract

This paper aims to compare Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola in relation to the question of the One and the being; furthermore, it wants to show how the theme of predicability of the neoplatonic One is central to understanding the position of Pico and that of Ficino. Pico, in fact, states that One and Being are coextensive; Ficino, instead, affirms that the One is wider than being. With his comment on Plato’s Parmenides, he wants to counteract the Pichian theory of convertibility of Being and One. However, Ficino speculation on these issues seems to implicitly reiterate the point of view of Pico’s De Ente et Uno.