E non meno che i corpi, egli atterrò le di loro menti, con fingersi tal idea sì spaventosa di Giove, la quale — se non co' raziocini, de' quali non erano ancor capaci, co' sensi, quantunque falsi nella materia, veri però nella loro forma (che fu la logica conforme a sì fatte loro nature) — loro germogliò la morale poetica con fargli pii.
And no less than their bodies, he stunned their minds by inventing such a terrifying idea of Jupiter, which - if not through reasoning, of which they were not yet capable, through the senses, although false in their matter, but true in their form (which was the logic in conformity with their natures) - gave rise to poetic morality in them by making them pious.