Do you see any sign, that Boccaccio knew the 12-Olympian-Gods system?
The 16 gods of the Echecs amoureux knew other gods. It has a focus on the 7-planet gods.
The 20/22 figures in De deorum imaginibus libellus / Albrici / Reg. Lat. 1290 has also a focus on the 7-planet gods
Saturnus / Jupiter - 1r
Mars / Apollo - 1v
Venus / Mercury - 2r
Diane / Minerva - 2v
Pan / Pluto - 3r
Juno / Cybele - 3v
Eolus / Janus - 4r
Vulcan / Neptun - 4v
Vesta / Orpheus - 5r
Bacchus / Aesculapius - 5v
Perseus / Heracles fights
Michael's quote , that you had linked to ... all 3 authors are not persons of 14th century .
Livy Ab Urbe Condita 22,10,9 .... 2 Forum lines
Apuleius, De Deo Socratis II,9-19 .... 8 Forum lines
Arnobius, Adversus nationes liber III, 40 .... 13 Forum lines
Livy Ab Urbe Condita 22,10,9 .... there is indeed not much more than 2 lines
https://books.google.de/books?id=4lEEEA ... t,&f=false
Apuleius, De Deo Socratis II,9-19 ... Another snippet in II near the beginning
http://www.poesialatina.it/_ns/ProsaLat ... ratis.html
Arnobius, Adversus nationes liber III, 40
Ah, that's an interesting passage, cause the text discusses the work of Manilius
38.1. Quonam modo igitur religionis potestis integrare vim plenam, cum circa ipsos erretis deos, aut ad venerabiles invitare nos cultus, cum nihil nos certi de ipsorum numinum comprehensione doceatis? 2. Ut enim de mediis conticiscamus auctoribus, aut ille primus eradit atque interficit sex divas Musas, si esse illas constat novem, aut iste ultimus et extremus sex adponit, quae nullae sunt, tribus solis in veritate constantibus, ut neque sciri possit aut comprehendi, quaenam debeant addi, quae demi, et in periculum deducatur religionis ipsius susceptio, aut id quod non est colens aut quod sit fortasse praeteriens. 3. Novensiles Piso deos esse credit novem in Sabinis apud Trebiam constitutos. Hos Granius Musas putat consensum adcommodans Aelio, novenarium numerum tradit Varro, quod in movendis rebus potentissimus semper habeatur et maximus, novitatum Cornificius praesides, quod curantibus his omnia novitate integrentur et constent, deos novem Manilius quibus solis Iuppiter potestatem iaciendi sui permiserit fulminis. 4. Cincius numina peregrina novitate ex ipsa appellata pronuntiat; nam solere Romanos religiones | f. 78 | urbium superatarum partim privatim per familias spargere, partim publice consecrare, ac ne aliqui deorum multitudine aut ignorantia praeteriretur, brevitatis et compendii causa uno pariter nomine cunctos Novensiles invocari.
39.1. Sunt praeterea nonnulli, qui ex hominibus divos factos hac praedicant appellatione signari, ut est Hercules Bomulus Aesculapius Liber Aeneas. Sententiae, ut apparet, diversae sunt haec omnes, neque fieri per rerum naturam potest, ut qui opinionibus differunt veritatis unius habeantur auctores. Si enim Pisonis sententia vera est, Melius et Uranius mentiuntur, si quod dicitur ab his certum est, peritissimus errat Varro, qui rebus in .sub.stantia constitutis inanissimas subdit et res cassas. 2. Si novenarius numerus cognomen Novensilium ducit, Cornificius balare convincitur, qui novitati praesidentibus divis alienae potentiae vim donat. Quodsi opinio Cornificii vera est, inprudens Cincius invenitur, qui urbium victarum deos potestate adficit Novensilium numinum. Quodsi hi sunt quos Cincius praedicat, Manilius dicere repperietur falsum, qui alieni fulminis iaculatores sub istius vocaminis appellatione concludit. 3. Quodsi exploratum et verum est id quod Manilius autumat, in errore sunt hi maximo qui honoribus divinis auctos consecratosque mortales ab novitate honoris existimant nuncupari. Quodsi Novensiles hi sunt qui meruerunt ad sidera sublevari, postquam sunt vitae mortalitate defuncti, nulli prorsus Novensiles di sunt. 4. Ut enim servi milites magistri non sunt personarum | f. 78b | subiacentium nomina sed officiorum, condicionum et munerum, ita cum Novensiles dicimus, si nomen est istud eorum qui ex hominibus meruerunt dii esse, manifestum et promptum est, non personas specialiter definitas sed novitatem ipsam cognomine Novensilium nuncupari.
[the following was that, what Michael had quoted]
40.1. Nigidius Penates deos Neptunum esse atque Apollinem prodidit, qui quondam muris immortalibus Ilium condicione adiuncta cinxerunt. Idem rursus in libro sexto exponit et decimo disciplinas Etruscas sequens, genera esse Penatium quattuor et esse Iovis ex his alios, alios Neptuni, inferorum tertios, mortalium hominum quartos, inexplicabile nescio quid dicens. 2. Caesius et ipse id sequens Fortunam arbitratur et Cererem, Genium Iovialem ac Palem, sed non illam feminam quam vulgaritas accipit sed masculini nescio quem generis ministrum Iovis ac vilicum. 3. Varro qui sunt introrsus atque in intimis penetralibus caeli deos esse censet quos loquimur nec eorum numerum nec nomina sciri. Hos Consentes et Complices Etrusci aiunt et nominant, quod una oriantur et occidant una, sex mares et totidem feminas, nominibus ignotis et miserationis parcissimae; sed eos summi Iovis consiliarios ac principes existimari. 4. Nec defuerunt qui scriberent Iovem, Iunonem ac Minervam deos Penates existere, sine quibus vivere ac sapere nequeamus et qui penitus nos regant ratione, calore ac spiritu. Ut videtis, et hic quoque nihil concinens dicitur, nihil una pronuntiatione finitur, nec est aliquid fidum, quo insistere mens possit veritati suae proxima suspicione | f. 79 | coniciens. Ita enim labant sententiae alteraque opinio ab altera convellitur, ut aut nihil ex omnibus verum sit aut si ab aliquo dicitur, tot rerum diversitatibus nesciatur.
(automatic translation)
38.1. How, then, can you integrate the full force of religion, when you err about the gods themselves, or invite us to venerable worship, when you are teaching us nothing certain about the comprehension of their deities? 2. For in order that we may cut over from the middle authors, either that first erases and kills the six goddesses of the Muses, if it is certain that they are nine, or that the last and the last adds six, which are none, the only three consisting in truth, so that it can neither be known nor comprehended; which things ought to be added, and which should be taken away, and the assumption of religion itself may be put into danger, or that which he is not worshiping, or which he is perhaps passing away. 3. Piso believes that the Novensiles were gods, nine among the Sabines settled at Trebia. Granius considers the Muses to be these, agreeing with Aelius' consent, Varro delivers the number nine, because he is always considered the most powerful and the greatest in shifting affairs, and Cornificius the governors of novelties; 4. Cincius declared that the divinities of the foreign country were derived from the novelty of the name itself; for it was customary for the Romans to spread the religions of the conquered cities, partly privately, and partly to consecrate them by families;
39.1. There are, moreover, some, who, by this name, declare that they were made gods, that they are signified by Hercules, Bomulus, Aesculapius, and Aeneas. All these opinions, as it appears, are different; For if the opinion of Piso is true, it is better to lie and Uranius, if what is said by them is certain; 2. If the number nine derives the surname of the Novensilius, he is convicted by Cornificius Balare, who imparts the power of a strange power to the gods who presided over the novelty. But if the opinion of Cornificius is true, then Cincius is found to be inadvertent, who by the power of the novel deities of the deities of the conquered cities infects the gods. But if those are the ones whom Cincius claims to be, Manilius will be found to speak false, who concludes that under the name of that name the throwers of another thunderbolt. 3. But if that which Manilius asserts is well-informed and true, in error they are of the greatest importance, who think that they are said to have been honored by divine honors, and consecrated mortals by the novelty of their honor. But if Novensiles are those who deserved to be raised to the stars, after they have died by the mortality of their life, they are no gods at all. 4. For just as slaves, soldiers and masters are not the names of subordinate persons, but of duties, situations, and roles, so when we say Novensiles, if this is the name of those who deserved to be gods of men to be termed.
40.1. Nigidius also stated that the Penates were Poseidon and Apollo gods; He explains the same again in Book VI and the following Etruscan teachings: that there are four genera of Penates, and that there are of them some of Jupiter, others of Neptune, the third of the underworld, and the fourth of mortals, and I do not know what to say in an inexplicable way. 2. Caesius himself considers that the latter follows Fortune and Ceres, the Genius of Jupiter and Pales; 3. Varro thinks that those who are in the interior and in the innermost recesses of the heaven are the gods whom we speak, and that neither their number nor their names are known. The Etruscans call and name these Consentes and Complices, because they give birth and kill one another, six males and as many females, by names unknown and of a minimal degree of compassion; but that they were considered as councilors and chiefs of Jupiter's chief. There were not wanting to write that Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva existed as gods as Penates, without whom we are unable to live and be wise, and who govern us entirely by reason, heat, and spirit. As you see, and here also nothing is said in tune, nothing is finished by one pronunciation, nor is there anything faithful by which the mind may be able to stand upon the truth by the nearest suspicion of its own f. 79 | guessing For such opinions fail, and another opinion is drawn up by another, that either nothing is true of them all;
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Here is an article about the Zwölfgötter (12 Götter) in Roscher's Mythologie-Lexikon. It goes from column 764-848, which is a rather complex text with 85 columns
https://archive.org/details/roscher1/Ro ... ew=theater
There is even an additional article "Theos trikaldecatos", Roscher Band 5, column 638f., but this isn't online. Ah ... I found it ....
https://archive.org/details/ausfhrliche ... ew=theater
It's a very small one about the 13th god. The 13th is Hercules, but alst opportunities Alexander the great and Augustus, if I remember correctly.
Julius Firmicus Maternus shall have reported about the astrology of Manilius, but hasn't given the name of the author. So I've read in the German article.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iulius_Firmicus_Maternus
Etwa 335 bis 337 verfasste der aus Sizilien stammende Firmicus die Matheseos libri octo -- kurz Mathesis --, ein Werk zur antiken Astrologie in acht Büchern. Inhaltlich zeigt Firmicus Maternus "im 1. B[uch] eine Verteidigung der Astrologie, in den weiteren 7 die astrologischen Grundbegriffe und Lehren von den 12 Orten, Himmelsachsen und vor allem den Horoskopen in den Tierkreiszeichen, in ihrer Verbindung mit einem oder mehreren Planeten in ihren verschiedenen Aspekten. Danach werden die Voraussagen über Kinder, Eltern, Krankheiten, Ehe, Geisteskrankheiten, verschiedene Berufe gegeben. Das 8. B[uch] enthält eine kurze Darstellung der Sphaera Barbarica."[1] Das Werk ist dem Statthalter Kampaniens, Egnatius Lollianus Mavortius, gewidmet, der zum Zeitpunkt der Widmung jedoch bereits zum proconsul Africae aufgestiegen war.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Firmico_Materno
Paradossalmente fu, invece, molto considerata la sua opera astrologica, la cui esaustività e leggibilità migliore rispetto all'opera di Marco Manilio giovarono alla trasmissione.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Firmicus_Maternus
Julius Firmicus Maternus was a Roman Latin writer and astrologer, who received a pagan classical education that made him conversant with Greek; he lived in the reign of Constantine I (306 to 337 AD) and his successors. His triple career made him a public advocate, an astrologer and finally a Christian apologist.[1] The explicit, or end-tag, of the sole surviving manuscript of his De errore profanarum religionum ("On the error of profane religions") gives his name as Iulius Firmicus Maternus V C, identifying him as a vir clarissimus and a member of the senatorial class. He was also author of the most extensive surviving text of Roman astrology, Matheseos libri octo ("Eight books of astrology") written around 334–337.[2] Manuscripts of this work identify him as "the younger" (iunior) or "the Sicilian" (Siculus).[3] The lunar crater Firmicus was named in his honour.
The Matheseos was dedicated to the governor of Campania, Lollianus Mavortius, whose knowledge of the subject inspired Firmicus, and whose encouragement supported him during the composition of this handbook. It is among the last extensive handbooks[4] of a "scientific" astrology that circulated in the West before the appearance of Arabic texts in the 12th century. Augustine of Hippo, drawn to astrology in his youth in the mid-fourth century,[6] fulminated against the study's impieties, in part based on the astrologers' view that the planets were divinities, but also on rational grounds, taking, for instance, the divergent careers of twins.[7] The Neoplatonist astrological work was first printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499, and has often been reprinted.