A construed Latin story in which Giovanni Pico della Mirandola recalls the May 1486 flight from Arezzo with Margherita, another man's wife, the slaughter of his household on the road to Siena, his imprisonment, and the summer at Fratta when Flavius Mithridates taught him the silent letter Aleph and he wrote God's words to Adam. Latin with word-by-word English gloss, then the Latin alone.