Magus
The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023, ©2023.
Format: Book
Description: 8 unnumberred pages, 289 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
"Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Magus Anatomized: The Case of Faustus -- Criticism and Experiment: Medieval Magi -- Power Over Nature: Art, Engineering and Humanism -- The Learned Magus: Pico and Ficino -- Johannes Trithemius: Magic and the Book -- Occult Philosophy in Theory and Practice: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.
Subjects:
Faust, -approximately 1540.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.
Magic -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Magic -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Science and magic -- History.
Humanists -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History.
Renaissance.
Faust, -approximately 1540.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.
Magic -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Magic -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Science and magic -- History.
Humanists -- Books and reading -- Europe -- History.
Renaissance.
ISBN:
9780674659735
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
English; some quotations in Latin and Italian.
English; some quotations in Latin and Italian.