Note 1294 — Chapter V · GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF BELIEF.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
If Pulci in his Morgante is anywhere in earnest with religion, he is so in canto xvi. str. 6. This deistic utterance of the fair pagan Antea is perhaps the plainest expression of the mode of thought prevalent in Lorenzo’s circle, to which tone the words of the dæmon Astarotte (quoted above p. 494) form in a certain sense the complement.