Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>20

Thesis 10>20

Latin

Per septennarium hymnorum paternae menti attributorum, Protogoni, Palladis, Saturni, Veneris, Rheae, Legis, Bacchi, potest intelligens et profundus contemplator de saeculi consumatione aliquid coniectare.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25999

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 Veneris | 1487 generis

1487 reads 'generis' for 'Veneris' (farmer1998:26023).

English

From the seven hymns assigned to the paternal mind—Protogonos, Pallas, Saturn, Venus, Rhea, Law, and Bacchus—a learned and searching contemplator can conjecture something of how the age will end.

Sense checked against farmer1998:26059; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:26059; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 10>, on the way of understanding the Orphic hymns) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references