Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic
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The latest of Michael Allen's distinguished studies of the Renaissance Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), presents a difficult, fascinating text. Late in his career, Ficino wrote a commentary on the intractable passage in Book VIII of Plato's Republic that concerns the mysterious geometric or "fatal" number. He was thus the first modern interpreter of this famous passage, and Allen is the first in our era to translate and elucidate his remarkable commentary.
Allen's critical translation of Ficino's analysis of the fatal number passage shows how it develops philosophical, psychological, numerological, astrological, and prophetic themes that had a particular resonance at the end of the fifteenth century.
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"Allen succeeds in clarifying Plato's words and meaning as no previous scholar has done or even attempted."--Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia University
Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic
Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's <i>Republic</i>,Michael J. B. Allen,University of California Press,0520081439,1433-1499,Ancient - General,Astrology,De numero fatali,Eugenics,Ficino, Marsilio,,General,History,Literature: Classics,New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit,Numerology,Plato,Republic,Symbolism of numbers,Ancient (Classical) Greek,Constitution: government & the state,Ficino, Marsilio,History / Ancient / General,Italian,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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