TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zambelli,Paola
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance
T2  - Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions,
AV  - BF1593 .Z36 2007eb
U1  - 133.4/309409024 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Magic
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Subtitle from cover; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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