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1— Convivio II-xiii-18
ben considera sottilmente;
per che Pittagora, secondo che dice
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Number exists not only in all of them together,
but also, upon careful reflection, in each one individually;
for this reason Pythagoras, as Aristotle says in the first book
of the Physics, laid down even and odd as the principles of
natural things, considering all things to have numerical aspect.
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2— Convivio II-xiv-5
hanno avute diverse oppinioni.
Chè li Pittagorici dissero che 'l Sole
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philosophers have held different opinions. For the Pythagoreans said
that the Sun at one time strayed from its path, and, passing through
other regions unsuited to its burning heat, set aflame the place
through which it passed, leaving there traces of that conflagration.
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3— Convivio II-xv-12
dell'universo, alla quale Pittagora
puose nome Filosofia.
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I assert and affirm that the lady of whom I was enamored after my first love
was the most beautiful and honorable daughter of the Emperor of the universe,
to whom Pythagoras gave the name of Philosophy.
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4— Convivio III-v-4
Questo mondo volse Pittagora e li
suoi seguaci dicere che fosse una
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Pythagoras and his followers maintained that this world was one of the stars
and that there was another opposite it that was identical, which he called Antichthon (or anti-world)
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5— Convivio III-xi-3
Romani, vivea uno filosofo nobilissimo
che si chiamò Pittagora. E che
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750 years before the coming of our Saviour, about the time of Numa Pompilius,
second king of the Romans, there lived a very noble philosopher by the name of Pythagoras.
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6— Convivio III-xi-5
Questo Pittagora, domandato se elli
si riputava sapiente, negò a sè
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When Pythagoras was asked whether he considered himself a wise man, refused to accept
the appellation for himself and said that he was not a wise man but a lover of wisdom.
So it came to pass after this that everyone dedicated to wisdom was called a "lover of wisdom,"
that is, a "philosopher," for philos in Greek means the same as "love" in Latin, and so
we say philos for lover and sophos for wisdom, from which we can perceive that
these two words make up the name of "philosopher," meaning "lover of wisdom," which, we might
note, is not a term of arrogance but of humility.
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7— Convivio IV-i-1
congiunge e unisce l'amante colla
persona amata; onde Pittagora dice:
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Love, according to the unanimous opinion of the sages who have spoken of it and as we see from constant experience,
is what joins and unites the lover with the person loved. Consequently Pythagoras says, "Friendship unites the many
into one." Since things that are joined by nature have their qualities in common with one another, to the extent that
one is at times completely transformed into the nature of the other, it follows that the passions of the person loved enter
into the person who loves, so that the love of the one is communicated to the other, as are hatred and desire and all other
passions.
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8— Convivio IV-xxi-3
Pittagora volse che tutte fossero
d'una nobilitade, non solamente le
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Plato and others maintained that our souls issued from the stars and were more or less
noble according to the nobility of their star. Pythagoras maintained that all souls
were of the same nobility, not only human souls but those of the brute animals and the plants,
and the forms of minerals; and he said that the only difference lay between their matter and their form.*
* Dante, in paraphrasing Pythagoras' theory, means that all of these
beings are equally noble with respect to their form; but with respect
to their material or matter, they are noble in different degrees.
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9— Monarchia I-xv-2
Unde fit quod unum esse videtur esse radix
eius quod est esse bonum, et multa esse eius
quod est esse malum; qua re Pictagoras
in correlationibus suis ex parte boni ponebat
unum, ex parte vero mali plurale
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This is how it comes about that unity seems to be
the root of what it is to be good,
and plurality the root of what it is to be evil;
that is why Pythagoras in his correlations placed
unity on the side of goodness and plurality on the side
of evil, as is clear in the first book of the Metaphysics*
* Aristotle, Metaphysics I.5 986a 15-b2
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