Article ID: CBB784619821

Numeri e alterità. L'eco di Pitagora nella Taumatologia di Giovan Battista Della Porta (2017)

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As with symbols in general, numbers are regarded as admitting a plurality of meanings, according to their literary context and the different orders of reality they are embedded in. In the wake of Ficino and Pico, the corpus of teachings devoted to arithmology enjoyed a rapid growth from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The Christian Platonic explanation of arithmological data retains the three-fold pattern of ancient Pythagoreanism regarding the interpretation of number in cosmological, ethical, and theological terms. By exploring Della Porta's Taumatologia, this essay attempts to reconsider the relations between number symbolism, natural philosophy, magic and music.

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Authors & Contributors
Caccioppoli, Carmen
Rispoli, Gennaro
Akopyan, Ovanes
Verardi, Donato
Casini, Paolo
Bertolini, Manuel
Concepts
Philosophy
Natural magic
Natural philosophy
Neoplatonism
Cosmology
Hermeticism
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
Early modern
15th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Europe
Naples (Italy)
England
Florence (Italy)
Spain
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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