Spiritual & demonic magic : from Ficino to Campanella / D.P. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, D. P. (Daniel Pickering)

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Series:

Magic in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Magic--Europe--History.

Magic.

Renaissance.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Spiritual and demonic magic.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Walker takes readers through the magical concerns of some of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance, from Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples to Jean Bodin, Francis Bacon, and Tommaso Campanella. Ultimately he demonstrates that magic was interconnected with religion, music, and medicine, all of which were central to the Renaissance notion of spiritus.

Remarkable for its clarity of writing, this book is still considered essential reading for students seeking to understand the assumptions, beliefs, and convictions that informed the thinking of the Renaissance. This edition features a new introduction by Brian Copenhaver, one of our leading experts on the place of magic in intellectual history.

Notes:

"First published as volume 22 of Studies of the Warburg Institute, The Warburg Institute, University of London, 1958"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

0271020458

OCLC:

44691434