White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance
Subtitle: [from Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno]
By: by Paola Zambelli.
Series: Studies in medieval and reformation traditions -- 125
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789004160989
Subjects: Magic.; Renaissance.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.

Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Must we really re-appropriate magic?; title: White magic, black magic; title: Continuity in the definition of natural magic from Pico to Della Porta : astrology and magic in Italy and north of the Alps; title: Scholastic and humanist views of hermetism : witchcraft, "natural magic", Trithemius' magic and Agrippa's critical turn of mind; title: Medieval hermetic antecedents; title: Ficino and Pico; title: Hermetists in Germany; title: Magic, pseudepigraphy, prophecies and forgeries in Trithemius' manuscripts : from Cusanus to Bovelles?; title: To publish or not to publish?; title: Trithemius' passion for magic; title: Trithemius as a prophet or prognosticator; title: Magical authorities and forgeries; title: Blessings and exorcisms; title: Trithemius and his german contemporaries; title: Ancient and medieval occult sources; title: Denunciations and self-defences; title: Socratism and cusanian ignorance or simplicity; title: Agrippa as an author of prohibited books; title: Agrippa of Nettesheim as a critical magus; title: Magic and radical Reformation in Agrippa of Nettesheim; title: Bruno as a reader of prohibited books; title: The initiates and the idiot. conjectures on some brunian sources; title: Bruno as a reader of the necromancers' 'theoricae' ...; title: Bruno and the paracelsian revival; title: Bruno as a reader of lullian and pseudo-lullian works; title: Hermetism and magic in Giordano Bruno : some interpretations from Tocco to Corsano, from Yates to Ciliberto; title: F.A. Yates, D.P. Walker and other scholars in the Warburg Institute; title: Renaissance magic as seen by Yates and Walker; title: Magic tricks of professor Ciliberto; title: A Nolan before Bruno : momus and socratism in the Renaissance.