My Hankins is back in the UK (I thought you had a copy now, I seem to recall you quoting from it?).Ross G. R. Caldwell wrote: Yes. What kind of exposure to the Republic might he have had in Florence, before 1434?
Asking you to refresh me on Hankins...
Anyhows there is some information in old thread here, with some direct quotes, over various postings starting from about post 43:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=70236&page=5
The thread is also split into another thread in reference to education and Plato here:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=72528
Plato's Republic seems to have been of some importance in the polemics of propaganda (in both peace and wartime) between Florence and Milan.