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hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [12] Quod si modo 195 cernerem, nihil mali suspicarer. Nec 196 enim loquens aliquis ducalem aut Venetum aut florentinum se jactitaret, sed conciliarem, sed mundanum, ut inquit Socrates, sese exhiberet 197 , cunctaque ad utilitatem concilii mundique commoda referret, nec suae affectioni 198 publicam postponeret utilitatem. Hinc namque, ni fallor, totius Christianitatis salus dependet, ut si locus aptus eligatur 199 , et Argolicis erroribus mederi et multis latinae linguae deformitatibus providere possitis. Quod si dubium insecurumque acceptare contingat, dissipetur 200 concilium, et praelati in praedam ultionemque dentur 201 , quod sine magno Christiani populi malo fieri non potest. Hic igitur aperiendi sunt oculi, hic summis digitis suspendendae oculorum palpebrae, ne quid perperam aut temere incipiatis. Sed imitemini sapientem, cujus proprium est, ut a Cicerone dicitur, nihil facere quod poenitere possit. 195 omit. M; haec N 196 Neque Z 197 exuberet B 198 factioni B 199 deligatur M 200 dissipabitur Z 201 dabuntur Z 56
hprints-00683151, version 2 - 19 Mar 2013 [12] If I perceive such sentiments now, I do not consider them to be of malicious intent, but I do think that no speaker should present himself as a man of the duke 202 or of Venice or of Florence, but rather as a man of the council or as a man of the World, as Socrates says 203 . Everything should be considered in terms of its usefulness to the council or its benefit to the world, and nobody should prefer private interests to the common good. Unless I am mistaken, the very salvation of all Christianity depends on this, and if you choose a suitable venue for the council, you can remedy the Argolian 204 errors and many deformations of the Latin language. But if you choose a dubious and unsafe location, then the council will be dispersed and the prelates subjected to plunder and revenge – to the great detriment of the Christian people. So you must open your eyes and with your fingertips keep your eyelids apart so that you do not enter upon a heedless and risky course. Let us imitate the wise man whose nature it is – as Cicero says – to do nothing of which he may repent. 205 202 i.e. of Milan 203 “mundanus”: Socrates as quoted by Plutarch, On Exile in Moralia: “… the saying of Socrates is still better, that he was no Athenian or a Greek, but a “cosmian” (as one might say Rhodian or Corinthian), because he did not shun himself up with Sunium or Taenarus and the Ceraunian mountains.” Quoted from the Loeb edition of 1959, vol. 7, p. 529. Cicero refers to this saying in Tusculanae Disputationes, 5, 37, 108, where Piccolomini may have picked it up 204 I.e. Greek 205 Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5, 28, 81. Quoted from the Loeb edition of 1927 57
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