Thesis 11>63
Latin
Sicut Aristoteles diuiniorem philosophiam, quam philosophi antiqui sub fabulis et apologis uelarunt, ipse sub philosophicae speculationis facie dissimulauit, et uerborum breuitate obscurauit, ita Rabi Moyses aegyptius, in libro qui a latinis dicitur dux neutrorum, dum per superficialem uerborum corticem uidetur cum Philosophis ambulare, per latentes profundi sensus intelligentias, mysteria complectitur Cabalae.
English
Aristotle hid the more divine philosophy, which the ancient philosophers had veiled under fables and tales, beneath the look of philosophical speculation and darkened it by the brevity of his words; in the same way Rabbi Moses the Egyptian, in the book the Latins call the 'dux neutrorum', while he seems, through the outer rind of his words, to walk with the philosophers, embraces through the hidden understandings of a deep sense the mysteries of the Cabala.
Sense checked against farmer1998:27793. 'dux neutrorum' kept in Latin, being the Latin title of Maimonides' Guide (Farmer's note, farmer1998:27809, names the Guide for the Perplexed). The OCR gives 'dissimulauit_et' at farmer1998:27748, read as a comma.
Discussed in
- Crofton Black, Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (2006)
- M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)
- (unidentified), Filosofia e cabbala nel Commento al Cantico (n.d.)
- Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)
- (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)
- B. C. Novak, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Jochanan Alemanno (1982)
- Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)