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

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. Very Good +/Very Good +. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 291 pp. Printed dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Boards show minor shelfwear with a few scuffs. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good plus.

University of California Press, June 1994. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

University of California Press, 1994. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Cover corners are lightly worn. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

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 - Flawless -- with a bonus offer-- .

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… Leer más