Satan's rhetoric : a study of Renaissance demonology /
Maggi, Armando.
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
The devils' perverted syllogism : Prierio's De strigimagis -- The word's ceremonies : natural and unnatural language according to De Moura's de Ensalmis -- To vomit the name of the morning star : creation as metaphor in Menghi and Polidori's Thesaurus exorcismorum -- Walking in the garden of purgatory : the discourse of the mind in the probation of St. Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi -- To dream insomnia : human mind and demonic enlightenment in Cardano's Metoposcopia -- The epic triumph of the church, its melancholy, and the persistence of sodom : a conclusion.
Demonology