Academy is an institution of higher education, research, or honorary membership. Name trace back to Plato’s philosophical school, founded about 385 BC at Akademia, the shrine of Athena, goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. In the Western academic world is the term commonly used for higher education institutions collectively.
Before the Academy is a school, and even before Cimon enclosed area around the wall, containing the sacred olive grove tRees is dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens. Hekademia ancient name for the site, which by classical times evolved into the Academy and explain, at least since the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking to an Athenian hero, the legendary “Akademos”. Akademia site was sacred to Athena and the other immortal.
During the Florentine Renaissance, Cosimo de ‘Medici took a personal interest in the new Platonic Academy that he determined to re-establish in 1439, centered on the tremendous promise shown by Marsilio Ficino young. Cosimo had been inspired by the arrival at the Florence Council Gemistos Plethon ineffective, that the figure appeared dazzling to the Florentine intellectuals. In 1462 Cosimo gave Ficino a villa at Careggi to use the Academy, situated where Cosimo could see it from the villa itself, and stopped to visit. Academy remains an informal group that really, but one that has a largefluence Renaissance Neo-Platonism.