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In the company of demons : unnatural beings, love, and identity in the Italian Renaissance / Armando Maggi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maggi, Armando.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Devil--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Devil.
- Renaissance.
- Devil--History of doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- To read the body of a monster : exegesis and witchcraft in Strix by Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola
- To recall the spirits' past : memory and demonology in Strozzi Cigogna's Palace of marvels and of the great enchantments of the spirits and of the entire nature
- The shadows and their beloved bodies : medicine, philosophy of love, and demonology in Pompeo della Barba's Interpretation of a platonic sonnet
- What does human mean? : beings against nature in Ludovico Maria Sinistrari's Demoniality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226501302
- OCLC:
- 62161144
- Publisher Number:
- 9780226501307
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