White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance

[from Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno]

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White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance

[from Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno]

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Brill
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English
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282

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Table of Contents

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
Agrippa as an author of prohibited books
Agrippa of Nettesheim as a critical magus
Magic and radical Reformation in Agrippa of Nettesheim
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
A Nolan before Bruno : momus and socratism in the Renaissance.

Edition Notes

Subtitle from cover.

Includes indexes.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Studies in medieval and reformation traditions -- 125

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Dewey Decimal Class
133.4/309409024
Library of Congress
BF1593 .Z36 2007

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Pagination
x, 282 p.
Number of pages
282

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OL22758682M
Internet Archive
whitemagicblackm00zamb
ISBN 13
9789004160989
Library Thing
8778954
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1114528

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