In the language of the Schools, the Possible Intellect, intellectus possibilis , is the faculty which receives impressions through the senses, and forms from them pictures or phantasmata in the mind. The Active Intellect, intellectus agens , draws from these pictures various ideas, notions, and conclusions. They represent the Understanding and the Reason. ↩

God. ↩

Redi, “Bacchus in Tuscany”:⁠—