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Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Farcino's Commentary Onthe Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic by Allen, Michael J.B - 1994
by Allen, Michael J.B
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Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Farcino's Commentary Onthe Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic
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Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. x, 291 pp. Light scratching to jacket. Jacket in Near Fine condition, Book in Fine condition.
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- Keywords 1433-1499, 1400s, 15th Century, Fifteenth Century, De Numero Fatali, Plato, Ficino, Marsilio, Symbolism of Numbers, Mathematics, Eugenics, History, Arithmetic, Astrology
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Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr. New. 1994. Hardcover. 0520081439 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - NEW, PRISTINE COPY - 291 pages. Book Description: 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…
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