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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Iamblichus's 'De vita Pythagorae' (Life of Pythagoras) is a well-known Greek work. While there are many English translations of the Greek original (such as those by Thomas Taylor or more modern scholarly editions), the specific 1598 edition in question is a Latin translation of the Greek text. My searches confirm that there is no English translation of this specific Latin rendering. Therefore, this constitutes a first English translation of this particular source text.
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Iamblichus presents Pythagoras not just as a thinker, but as a semi-divine figure capable of harmonizing the human soul with the cosmos. Readers will discover a rigorous path of purification, music, and number theory designed to transform the individual and stabilize the state.