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

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 1996| | Copyright

Michael J.B. Allen. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994. x + 291 pp. $48.

"For a long time the prodigious enigmas in the preceding chapter [Rep. VIII 546A-D] have terrified us and other Platonists from devoting ourselves to their explication." Thus did Marsilio Ficino, three years before his death, mount a supreme effort by means of a hitherto neglected treatise to elucidate what is surely the most puzzling passage in the entire Platonic corpus, "concerning the Republic's mutatione through the Fatal Number." Unfortunately the ...

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