title: 15th century in philosophy
text: # 15th century in philosophy
  
  This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 15th century.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1433 – Baverius de Bonittis starts teaching philosophy and logic at the University of Bologna
  * 1433 – Ambrogio Traversari completed his translation of Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
  
  ## Publications
  
  * 1433 – Lorenzo Valla publishes his much modified second edition of De voluptate (On Pleasure) while on sojourn in Pavia
  * 1499 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorso sopra le cose di Pisa
  * 1500 – Desiderius Erasmus, Collectanea Adagiorum
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1433 – Marsilio Ficino (d. 1499). Christian Neoplatonist, head of Florentine Academy and major Renaissance Humanist figure. First translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin.
  * 1433 – Nil Sorsky (d. 1508), Russian Hesychast
  * c.1467 – Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536).
  * 1467 – John Major (or Mair) (d. 1550). Scottish logician
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1432 or 1433 – Ibn Turkah (Sa'in al-Din Turkah Isfahani), an influential Turcoman scholar and Sufist philosopher at the School of Isfahan, exiled by Tamerlane until the latter's death. The date of Ibn Turkah's death is uncertain; either 1432 or 1433.
  * 1499 – Marsilio Ficino (b. 1433). See § Births
  