White magic, black magic in the European Renaissance /

Zambelli, Paola.

White magic, black magic in the European Renaissance / Subtitle on cover: From Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno by Paola Zambelli. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. - 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) - - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 125 1573-4188 ; . - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 125. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : must we really re-appropriate magic? -- White magic, black magic. Continuity in the definition of natural magic from Pico to Della Porta : astrology and magic in Italy and north of the Alps ; Scholastic and humanist views of Hermetism : witchcraft, "natural magic", Trithemius' magic and Agrippa's critical turn of mind (Medieval Hermetic antecedents ; Ficino and Pico ; Hermetists in Germany) ; Magic, pseudepigraphy, prophecies and forgeries in Trithemius' manuscripts : from Cusanus to Bovelles? (To publish or not to publish? ; Trithemius' passion for magic ; Trithemius as a prophet or prognosticator ; Magical authorities and forgeries ; Blessings and exorcisms ; Trithemius and his German contemporaries ; Ancient and medieval occult sources ; Denunciations and self-defences ; Socratism and Cusanian ignorance or simplicity) ; Appendix I : Trithemius' bibliography for necromancers -- Agrippa as an author of prohibited books. Agrippa of Nettesheim as a critical Magus ; Magic and radical Reformation in Agrippa of Nettesheim ; Appendix II : recent studies on Agrippa -- Bruno as a reader of prohibited books. The initiates and the idiot : conjectures on some Brunian sources (Bruno as a reader of the necromancers' 'theoricae' ; Bruno and the Paracelsian revival ; Bruno as a reader of Lullian and pseudo-Lullian works) ; Hermetism and magic in Giordano Bruno : some interpretations from Tocco to Corsano, from Yates to Ciliberto (F.A. Yates, D.P. Walker and other scholars in the Warburg Institute ; Renaissance magic as seen by Yates and Walker ; Magic tricks of Professor Ciliberto) ; Appendix III : a Nolan before Bruno : Momus and Socratism in the Renaissance.

Use copy

The ideas of philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta, Bruno) on magic interfered with popular alternative and witchcraft rites. This book focuses on "wandering scholastics" (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) and is suitable for those interested in Renaissance mentality.


Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.


Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212


English.

9789047421382 (electronic bk.) 9047421388 (electronic bk.) 1281936235 9781281936233 9786611936235 6611936238 (hardback ; alk. paper) (hardback ; alk. paper)

10.1163/ej.9789004160989.i-282 doi

Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete

101318162 DNLM B0711125 bccb


Magic.
Renaissance.
Medicine, Medieval.
History, Medieval
Magic--history
Renaissance.
Médecine médiévale.
Renaissance.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Witchcraft & Wicca.
Magic.
Renaissance.
Magie.
Astrologie.
Hekserij.
Natuurwetten.


Europe.
Europe
Europe.
Europa (geografie)


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BF1593 / .Z36 2007eb

133.4/309409024

2007 M-217 WZ 309 / Z23w 2007

O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat-Narela Road, Sonepat, Haryana (India) - 131001

Send your feedback to glus@jgu.edu.in

Hosted, Implemented & Customized by: BestBookBuddies   |   Maintained by: Global Library