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<strong>Cause</strong>, principle and unity it everywhere entirely there. Similarly, the words I am saying are entirely heard by all of you, and would still be if a thousand people were present. And if my voice could reach all the world, it would be everywhere entire. To you, then, I say, Master Poliinnio, that the soul is not indivisible in the manner of a point, but, in some way, in the manner of a voice. And to you, Gervasio, I answer that the divinity is not everywhere like the God of Grandazzo is in the whole of his chapel, because, though that God is present in the whole church, he is not everywhere wholly present, but has his head in one place, his feet elsewhere, his arms and his chest still somewhere else. On the contrary, the divinity is entire in any part whatsoever, just as my voice is heard entirely from all sides of the room. POLIINNIO. Percepi optime. [I understood perfectly.] GERVASIO. I have also understood your voice. DICSONO. I believe it about the voice, but as for the argument, I think it has gone in one ear and out the other. GERVASIO. I do not think it has even gone in, because the hour is late, and my stomach’s clock has sounded. POLIINNIO. Hoc est, idest [That is] he has his head in patinis. [on casseroles.] End of second dialogue Third dialogue GERVASIO. It is already time and those people have not yet come. Since I have nothing else compelling to think about, I will amuse myself listening to their discussions, and maybe they can teach me some nice chess moves in the philosophy game besides. It is also a pleasant sport, with the whims that flit about in the bizarre brain of that pedant, Poliinnio. He presumes to be a judge of who speaks well, who discourses better, who commits philosophical incongruities and errors, but when his turn comes, and not knowing what to offer himself, he starts to spin out from the sleeve of his hollow pedantry a little salad of puny proverbs and phrases in Latin and Greek, which have nothing at all to do with what the others are saying, whence any blind man can see without much strain how mad he is, with his Latin, while the others are wise with their vulgar tongue. But, by my faith, here he is. By the way he moves along, it looks like he knows how to adopt a Latin pace even by the motion of his legs. Welcome, dominus magister [superior master]. 50
Third dialogue POLIINNIO. That magister I do not care for. In our misguided and lawless age, it is attributed to any barber, rag picker or sow-gelder as often as to my peers. That is why we have the advice: nolite vocari Rabi [Be ye not called Rabbi] 1 GERVASIO. Then how do you wish me to call you? Do you fancy ‘most reverend’? POLIINNIO. Illud est presbiterale et clericum [That is for clerics and priests]. GERVASIO. Do you feel like ‘most illustrious’? POLIINNIO. Cedant arma togae [arms give way to the toga]. 2 That title befits knights as well as the purple-clad. 3 GERVASIO. And ‘Caesarean majesty’, hm? POLIINNIO. Quae Caesaris Caesari [Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s]. 4 GERVASIO. Then take domine [Lord]!, take ‘thunderer’, ‘divum Pater’ [father of the Gods]! To come back to us: why are you so late? POLIINNIO. I think the others are held back by some business. As for myself, in order not to waste the day away without tracing a line, 5 I dedicated myself to contemplating that symbol of the globe commonly dubbed a world map. GERVASIO. What on earth have you to do with a world map? POLIINNIO. I am contemplating all the parts of the earth, climes, provinces and regions that I have traversed ideally in spirit, and many also on foot. GERVASIO. I should like you to come back a little to yourself, as it seems to me that is what you need most but worry about the least. POLIINNIO. Absit verbo invidia [Be it said without boasting] 6 : in this way, I come to know myself much more effectively. GERVASIO. And how, pray tell, is that? POLIINNIO. From the scrutiny of the macrocosm, one can easily arrive (necessaria deductione facta a simili [having made the necessary deduction by similitude]) at the knowledge of the microcosm, the most minute parts of which correspond to parts of the former. GERVASIO. So that, within you, we will find the moon, Mercury and other heavenly bodies, as well as France, Spain, Italy, England, Calcutta and other lands? 1 From Matthew 23, 8. 2 Cicero, fragm. De meo consulatu. 3 Magistrates. 4 Matthew 22, 21. 5 Allusion to the Plinian adage: ‘Nulla dies sine linea.’ 6 Livy IX, 19. 51
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On Magic
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