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[Interpretation and Commentary, Mike Dougherty, 10/1/24]:

(Also annotates: Preface )

per satyram omnia simul mixta: The last portion of Pico’s preface – omnia simul mixta – translated by Farmer as “everything mixed together,” may be an allusion to the often-cited fragment of Anaxagoras that states “all things were together (panta chrêmata ên homou).” Ambrosius Traversarius rendered this text of Anaxagoras as omnia simul erant in his early 15th-century translation of Diogenes Laertius’s influential De vita et moribus philosophorum, while various texts from the medieval Aristoteles Latinus tradition rendered Anaxagoras’s text as omnia mixta or simul omnia.

As a literary allusion to Anaxagoras, the text omnia simul mixta may indicate how Pico viewed the planned disputation of his wide-ranging theses. According to Diogenes Laertius, Anaxagoras began his treatise with the words “All things were together; then Mind arrived and arranged them in order” (De vita, II.3). Diogenes then recounts that Anaxagoras himself acquired the nickname of Mind, since his was the mind that ordered what had previously been a mixture. Thus, in this preface to the Conclusiones, Pico may be presenting himself as the new “Mind,” who in the course of the disputation will give order to the “mixture” of views contained in his theses taken from various traditions. That Pico is familiar with Anaxagoras’s account of the ordering function of Mind is shown in thesis II.3.21.

This possible literary allusion to Anaxagoras in Pico’s preface is obscured with Biondi’s Italian rendering of omnia as an adverb and taking satyra in the sense of satire. See Conclusiones nongentae: Le novecento tesi dell'anno 1486, a cura di Albano Biondi (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1995). Farmer argues, contra Biondi, that satyra should be taken in the sense of “mixture or medley.” See S. A. Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), 188, 210.
 

[Latin to Spanish Translation, Ernesto Priani Saiso, 10/1/24]:

All: Por las conclusiones precedentes se puede entender qué sea la homeomería de Anaxágoras, a la que distingue el Artífice del intelecto.