Zambelli, Paola. <br/><br/>
White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance  [electronic resource] / 
by Paola Zambelli. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2007. 
 - x, 282 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions,  v. 125  1573-4188 ; .
 - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions  v. 125. .
<br/><br/> Subtitle from cover. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Magic.<br/>Renaissance.
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