Marsilio Ficino's De stella magorum and Renaissance Views of the Magi

References to the Magi whose veneration of the infant Christ is recorded in the second chapter of the gospel of Matthew are frequent in the writings of Marsilio Ficino, especially his letters. The clearest expressions of his interest and faith in the Magi can be found in the Apologia , accounting for the more magical elements in the De vita , and in a praedicatio on the topic of the star that guided the Wise Men.