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Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic Hardcover - 1994

by ALLEN, Michael J.B.


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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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  • Title Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic
  • Author ALLEN, Michael J.B.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994
  • ISBN 9780520081437

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Michael J. B. Allen is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. California has also published his castes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's Sophist (1989), The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino (1984), Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer (1981), and Marsilio Ficino: The Philebus Commentary (1975).
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