Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

...is mostly for that reason deprived of trust; but he who praises unproductively and dryly seems to be deprived of a cause. Such a person is indeed thought to be a friend to the one he wishes to praise, but he is found unable to find anything that he may rightfully commend. You, certainly, have defended your position neither dryly nor coldly, even against an accuser whom you yourself are forced to admit is a highly praised man.

So now, when I contemplate your magnificent promises from the front and from the back equally—from the opposite side and from behind original Greek: ἐξ ἐναντίας, καὶ ὄπισθεν—I see, and I groan, that those promises not only do not pertain to me in any way, but they also vanish completely and fall back into nothing.

For indeed, I will remain silent on the fact that we were born under different planets, and that we cannot agree in all things unless perhaps you take away from the stars their power—a power which our physicians do not reject. A witness to this is Gaspar Torella A famous Spanish physician (c. 1452–1520) who served the Borgia family and wrote early medical works on syphilis., whom I have read in his treatise On the Disease of the Private Parts original Latin title: "de Pudendagra," a term used for syphilis. He writes that Astrologers say the French Disease morbum Gallicum: a common historical name for syphilis, which was often attributed to astrological alignments at the time results from a constellation of the higher bodies; specifically, with Saturn being in Aries. Much less will I make it my own quarrel, that which your Vitus of Good Hope original Latin: "Vitus de la bona speranza" carps at so foolishly and unphilosophically original Greek: ἀφιλοσόφως, as if philosophers were devising a "double truth" A controversial philosophical concept suggesting that something could be true in philosophy but false in theology, or vice versa....